num_pages: 302
description: Eva Trout, Elizabeth Bowen’s last novel, epitomizes her bold exploration of the territory between the comedy of manners and cutting social commentary.Orphaned at a young age, Eva has found a home of sorts in Worcestershire with her former schoolteacher, Iseult Arbles, and Iseult's husband, Eric. From a safe distance in London, her legal guardian, Constantine, assumes that all's well. But Eva's flighty, romantic nature hasn't entirely clicked with the Arbles household, and Eva is plotting to escape. When she sets out to hock her Jaguar and disappear without a trace, she unwittingly leaves a paper trail for her various custodians–and all kinds of trouble–to follow.
language: English
title: Eva Trout
titlecomplete: Eva Trout
characters: Constantine Ormeau, Iseult Smith, Willy Trout, Eric Arble, Eva Trout
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, Ireland, British Literature, Irish Literature, Womens, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 593
awards: awardedAt: 28800000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: -31507200000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Anchor