num_pages: 159
description: Two sisters, two weddings, just months apart. These marriages produce a tangle of friends, relations and lovers that starts to unravel ten years later, during one intense week. Two of Bowen’s most memorable characters are in attendance: Lady Elfrida, a creature of privilege, and Theodora Thirdman, a gawky teenager with zero self-awareness. The sunset of prosperity is upon this complacent, moneyed class, but Bowen’s precise and beautiful prose pins real pain and comedy upon its inhabitants.
language: English
title: Friends and Relations
titlecomplete: Friends and Relations (Penguin Modern Classics)
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, Ireland, British Literature, Irish Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels
ratings_count: 179
publisher: Penguin Books