
The Last September
- Author Elizabeth Bowen
- Narrator Lauren Coe
- Publisher Random House
- Run Time 10 hours and 6 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Classic fiction, Historical fiction.
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What to expect
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Read Elizabeth Bowen's accessible feminist take on the Irish aristocracy
The Irish troubles rage, but up at the 'Big House', tennis parties, dances and flirtations with the English officers continue, undisturbed by the ambushes, arrests and burning country beyond the gates. Faint vibrations of discord reach the young girl Lois, who is straining for her own freedom, and she will witness the troubles surge closer and reach their irrevocable, inevitable climax.
© Elizabeth Bowen 1929 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critics Review
A book I read only some years ago, and was astonished by its modernity, its formidable intelligence and its punk sensibility, was The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen
A strongly autobiographical portrait of a lost class marking out its final moments – every garden party, every house guest and every flirtation is touched by a sense of impending extinction
When I read [The Last September] I was knocked out by the sheer magnificence of her writing, the cinematic possibilities, and her obsession with the minutiae and the detail of life… I was totally gripped by the story
Posterity will one day return to Miss Bowen’s novels as a repository of clues to the inner life of our times
A combination of social comedy and private tragedy…brilliant description of Anglo-Irish life at the troublesome time of 1920
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