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3* The Last September
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Elizabeth Bowen’s The Death of the Heart takes in London during the interwar period. Portia Quayne, age 16, had been living abroad with her father and his second wife Irene. After her parents’ death, she is sent to London to live with her half-brother Thomas Quayne and his wife Anna. Thomas and Anna are not quite sure what to do with Portia. They send her to Miss Paullie’s girls’ school to occupy her. Portia gets infatuated with Anna’s friend Eddie who turns out to be bad news. During summer bre
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