Eva Trout: Or Changing Scenes -- Elizabeth Bowen, Paperback

Eva Trout, Elizabeth Bowen's last novel, epitomizes her bold exploration of the territory between the comedy of manners and cutting social commentary.

Orphaned at a young age, Eva has found a home of sorts in Worcestershire with her former schoolteacher, Iseult Arbles, and Iseult's husband, Eric. From a safe distance in London, her legal guardian, Constantine, assumes that all's well. But Eva's flighty, romantic nature hasn't entirely clicked with the Arbles household, and Eva is plotting to escape. When she sets out to hock her Jaguar and disappear without a trace, she unwittingly leaves a paper trail for her various custodians-and all kinds of trouble-to follow.

Author: Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 02/04/2003
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.34h x 5.30w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9780385721318

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 03/02/2003 pg. 28

About the Author

Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899. She wrote many acclaimed short stories and novels, including The Heat of the Day, The Death of the Heart, The Last September, and Eva Trout. She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 1948. She died in 1973.