1969 Eva Trout, or Changing Scenes

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First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

First edition, in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original dust wrapper.

Written by Irish and British novelist and short-story writer, Elizabeth Bowen, who is most known for her books about Protestantism in Ireland and for her fiction about wartime in London.

'Eva Trout' was Bowen's final novel and was shortlisted for the 1970 Booker Prize. It tells the story of young woman Eva Trout who inherits all of her father's money after he commits suicide. Set in two parts, the time following her father's death and then eight years later when Eva has time to reconsider the past.