Uncovers the illicit affair between the novelist and the author’s grandfather, Humphry House, which Parry discovered on being delivered a box of letters.
The Shadowy Third: Love, Letters, and Elizabeth Bowen
(author)
£16.99
Edition:Hardback978071565357925/02/2021
Categories: 01. Books for the New Year 2021: Biography & Memoir, Biography, Letters & Diaries, Books for the New Year 2021
Tags: 1922-1923 (Irish Civil War period), Autobiography: writers, Biography: writers, Books about Writers, Classic travel writing, England, Family history, tracing ancestors, India, Ireland, Letters & Diaries, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Memoirs, Second World War
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