The Heat of the Day

"Imagine a Graham Greene thriller projected through the sensibility of Virginia Woolf." ?_The Atlantic Monthly
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?[Bowen] startles us by sheer originality of mind and boldness of sensibility into seeking our world afresh. . . . Out of the plainest things--the drawing of a curtain--she can make something electric and urgent." --V. S. Pritchett

"Dense as a poem with symbol and suggestion. . . . The work of a writer [of] rich and winning gifts." _?Time
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"Miss Bowen [has] power to evoke, suggest and explore down oblique and little-frequented avenues the mysterious centers of human conduct." --_The New York Times
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A novel which draws on a recollection of wartime London to depict the effect of war on the manners, morals and emotions of those not directly engaged in the fighting. Originally published by Cape in 1949, by the author of TO THE NORTH, THE HOTEL and A WORLD OF LOVE.