A Modern Literary Life: Elizabeth Bowen, A Memoir: An ode to a singular writer
Portrait of Bowen emerges in the anecdotes, letters and quotations from her fiction and non-fiction
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Portrait of Bowen emerges in the anecdotes, letters and quotations from her fiction and non-fiction
Elizabeth Boyle’s memoir blends sex, medieval Ireland and childhood abandonment
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'Irreverent, capacious and constantly surprising' Hilary Mantel Every day a beloved father dies. Every day a lover departs. Every day a woman turns forty. All three happening together brings a moment of reckoning. Medieval historian Elizabeth Boyle made sense of these events the best way she knew how - by immersing herself in the literature that has been her first love and life's work for over two decades. Fierce Appetites is the exhilarating and deeply humane result. Not only does Elizabeth Boyle write dazzling accounts of ancient stories, familiar and obscure, from Ireland and fu...