Description
Elizabeth Bowen is something of a forgotten author now, which is a shame as she writes so beautifully and is wonderful at capturing the relationships between people. This novel is set in Montefort; a corroding country house in County Cork. The house was owned by Guy, who died in WWI, leaving his cousin, Antonia, as heir. Troubled that Guy had died without leaving a will, and without marrying his fiancée, Lilia, Antonia finds herself interfering in others lives. She engineers a marriage between a distant relation, Fred Danby, and Lilia; allowing her a position of patronage, in which they essentially keep the house and she keeps the best room and flits in and out of their lives.
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