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.
In The Last September, Elizabeth Bowen captures the fading embers of an Anglo-Irish way of life and a future that is unthinkable.
Anguish Revisited
At boarding school in the late Sixties we had as our English teacher a Miss J. H. B. Jones. Coaxing us self-absorbed teenagers through the A-level syllabus she was diffident, patient and unassuming,...
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