From the Bookshelf of Reading with Style…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
No group discussions for this book yet.
What Members Thought
The blurb on the edition of this book I have says "Bowen is magnificent when she writes about...ambiguity" (Margaret Drabble). Ambiguity is right! The reader has no idea what is going on in the first scene. Each passing scene becomes a bit clearer until the last scene is crystal clear. But the whole book leaves you with a thousand unanswered questions. And, yet, the questions are not as demanding as you would have guessed half way through.
A young woman (Eva Trout), who grew up motherless and wa ...more
A young woman (Eva Trout), who grew up motherless and wa ...more
I enjoyed most of the story of Eva Trout while I was reading it, but kept having the feeling that I was missing something important that would have allowed me to have a better understanding of the plot and characters. I’ve read through a lot of reviews now, and it seems I was not alone in this feeling. For about the last third of the book, I did have a certain sense of foreboding and I found the last section more gripping because of that feeling. Eva was an interesting character who did unusual
...more
Sep 04, 2011
Jayalalita devi dasi
marked it as to-read
Shelves:
owned-or-borrowed,
historical-to-read
Aug 04, 2014
Laurie
marked it as to-read
Mar 04, 2015
Cindy
marked it as to-read
Mar 15, 2015
Katy
marked it as to-read
Feb 10, 2018
Valerie Brown
marked it as to-read
May 08, 2018
Read Between The Lines
marked it as to-read
