If she doesn't come soon I must go—yes, indeed I must, Mr. Armstrong— and see about the two next fours. You see her cousin Laurence is no good for that, he is so intellectual, and Lady Naylor doesn't much notice the tennis so long as ...
During the 1920s, in an Ireland torn by revolution, an upper-class family struggles to ignore the violence that threatens its stability
The Last September is Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized time and place, where the ordinariness of life floats like music over the impending doom of history.
The Last September
“If you liked The Girl on the Train, read The Last September, a literary whodunit set on Cape Cod, weaving a murder mystery with the emotionally intense story of a fraying marriage.”—Newsday “Impossible to put down .
It is the type of novel writers admire and readers long for.” —Jason Mott, author of The Returned Brett has been in love with her husband, Charlie, from the day she laid eyes on him in college.