by Elizabeth Bowen · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140018448
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«The Heat of the Day» is Elizabeth Bowen's war novel, published by Penguin in paperback (329 pages, in English).
In the London of the Second World War bombings, Stella discovers that her lover, Robert, is suspected of passing information to the enemy. Harrison, the agent tracking him, proposes a deal: silence in exchange for Stella herself. Torn between two men and not knowing whom to believe, Stella watches the certainties that sustain her life crumble.
This Penguin Books edition, reprinted in 1986, corresponds to a novel originally published in 1948.
For readers of classic fiction and historical fiction set during the Second World War.
Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer notable for her books about "the Big House" of Irish landed Protestants as well as her fiction about life in wartime London.
