A review by nohoperadio
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen

3.5

This left me with the feeling that I’d really like to read a better Elizabeth Bowen novel than this one. I like characters who overanalyze themselves and each other, who are a bit too theoretical about life, and these characters are very much that. But they’re rather too eloquent about it with too little struggle, so that I often feel like I’m just reading Elizabeth Bowen’s thoughts about her own creations and not the creatures themselves. I am intrigued though, I’ll probably be tempted into at least one more book of hers before I die.