When sixteen-year-old Portia is orphaned she is plunged into the sophisticated and politely treacherous world of her wealthy half-brother's home. There she encounters the attractive cad Eddie. To him, Portia is at once child and woman, and he fears her gushing love. To her, Eddie is the only reason to be alive.

Bowen's imaginative interpretation of the effect of war on the manners, morals and emotions of those not directly engaged in the fighting is drawn from an uncannily poignant recall of the wartime London scene.

Lois lives at the 'big house' where tennis parties and dances are part of everyday life. However, times are changing and a violent act will soon change this place forever.

When eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers' residence in Paris, little does she know what fascinating secrets the house itself contains. Henrietta finds that her visit coincides with that of Leopold, an intense child who has come to Paris to be introduced to the mother he has never known.

Presenting an account of a time spent in Rome, the author describes its history, its architecture, its atmosphere, and the famous classical sites in the city.

Features seventy-nine stories such as: love stories, ghost stories, stories of childhood, of English middle-class life in the twenties and thirties, and of London during the Blitz.

Monolithic, rich, unloved and with a genius for unreality, Eva Trout has a capacity for making and attracting trouble. Eva Trout was Elizabeth Bowen's last completed novel.

Bowen's Court describes the history of the author's Anglo-Irish family in County Cork, from the Cromwellian sttlement until 1959. In Seven Winters, Elizabeth Bowen recalls, with endearing candour, her family and Dublin childhood.