Eva Trout: Or Changing Scenes

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 02/04/2003
ISBN: 9780385721318
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.34h x 5.30w x 0.73d

Review Citations: New York Times 03/02/2003 pg. 28