Lara Feigel

The stuff of fiction: Elizabeth Bowen exploits her extra-marital affairs

Julia Parry reveals how an unhappy love triangle involving the author and a young married couple provided material for Bowen’s fifth novel, The House in Paris

Elizabeth Bowen, photographed by Angus McBean c. 1949. Credit: Alamy 
issue 20 February 2021
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  • The Shadowy Third: Love, Letters and Elizabeth Bowen

    Julia Parry

    Duckworth, pp. 386, £16

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