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This is third of Elizabeth Bowen's books that I've read, and I just can't really get into any of them. They have all the ingredients of a book that I would love--female protagonists, first half of the 20th century British setting, romance (without being A Romance Novel), but the characters always seem so distant, so unrelatable, that I don't particularly care what happens to them. She does write beautifully, but I can never become immersed in a book without being able to put myself into the shoe
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The story didn't really develop for me, and seemed lacking of the really powerful characters that I love in Bowen's writing. Her short stories, The House in Paris, and Eva Trout are splendid, but I can't recommend this one.
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The ending was abrupt. The dialogue weird. Everyone seemed rude and aloof. It had it's moments though.
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Nov 13, 2009
Tiffany
marked it as to-read_later
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Deedee
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Lucy
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