Friends and Relations
1931
First Published
3.50
Average Rating
176
Number of Pages
Two sisters, two weddings, just months apart. These marriages produce a tangle of friends, relations and lovers that starts to unravel ten years later, during one intense week. Two of Bowen’s most memorable characters are in attendance: Lady Elfrida, a creature of privilege, and Theodora Thirdman, a gawky teenager with zero self-awareness. The sunset of prosperity is upon this complacent, moneyed class, but Bowen’s precise and beautiful prose pins real pain and comedy upon its inhabitants.
Avg Rating
3.50
Number of Ratings
208
5 STARS
17%
4 STARS
32%
3 STARS
34%
2 STARS
15%
1 STARS
1%
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Author
Elizabeth Bowen
Author · 23 books
Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen, CBE was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer and short story writer notable for her books about the "big house" of Irish landed Protestants as well her fiction about life in wartime London.
