In a writing career that spanned the 1920s to the 1960s, Anglo-Irish
author Elizabeth Bowen created a rich and nuanced body of work in
which she enlarged the comedy of manners with her own stunning brand
of emotional and psychological depth.In A World of Love, an uneasy
group of relations are living under one roof at Montefort, a decaying
manor in the Irish countryside. When twenty-year-old Jane finds in
the attic a packet of love letters written years ago by Guy, her
mother’s one-time fiance who died in World War I, the discovery has
explosive repercussions. It is not clear to whom the letters are
addressed, and their appearance begins to lay bare the strange and
unspoken connections between the adults now living in the house.
Soon, a girl on the brink of womanhood, a mother haunted by love
lost, and a ruined matchmaker with her own claim on the dead wage a
battle that makes the ghostly Guy as real a presence in Montefort as
any of the living.
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Edition Info: Paperback; 1984-03
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