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The Heat of the Day (Paperback)
Elizabeth Bowen (author)Published: 14/05/1998
A bewitching novel that perfectly captures the nihilistic romance of London during the Blitz, when normal rules crumbled in the face of potential annihilation, The Heat of the Day places a love triangle at the heart of a deadly game of wartime espionage.
It is wartime London, and the carelessness of people with no future flows through the evening air. Stella discovers that her lover Robert is suspected of selling information to the enemy. Harrison, the British intelligence agent on his trail, wants to bargain, the price for his silence being Stella herself.
Caught between two men and unsure who she can trust, the flimsy structures of Stella's life begin to crumble.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099276463
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 282 g
Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 25 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
Probably the most intelligent noir ever written...The situation is surreal, the psychologizing profound, and the eerie inwardness trapped in Bowen's distinctive prose resonates inside a peculiar silence that fills the reader's heart with dread - Los Angeles Times
One of three quintessential London 'war' novels, the others being Patrick Hamilton's Hangover Square and Graham Greene's The End of the Affair. No other novel conjures the spooky solemnity of the Blitz so adroitly - Time Out
A tensely charged story of betrayal - Independent
Marvellously witty, poetic and socially perceptive novels... she is bang on form with The Heat of the Day - John Bayley, Independent
This world reminds you of both Henry James and Graham Greene...a world both placid and violently fractured...Bowen's prose is crisp and precise, but also suggestive and haunting...She combines moral refinement and pitiless but compasionate understanding - Sunday Times
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