<strong>The Last September</strong> is Elizabeth Bowens portrait of a young womans coming ofage in a brutalized time and place where the ordinariness of life fl... » 

The Last September is Elizabeth Bowens portrait of a young womans coming ofage in a brutalized time and place where the ordinariness of life floats likemusic over the impending doom of history.In 1920 at their country home in County Cork Sir Richard Naylor and his wifeLady Myra and their friends maintain a skeptical attitude toward the eventsgoing on around them but behind the facade of tennis parties and army campdances all know that the end is approachingthe end of British rule in thesouth of Ireland and the demise of a way of life that had survived forcenturies. Their niece Lois Farquar attempts to live her own life and gainher own freedoms from the very class that her elders are vainly defending. TheLast September depicts the tensions between love and the longing for freedombetween tradition and the terrifying prospect of independence both politicaland spiritual.Brilliant.... A successful combination of social comedy and private tragedy.The Times Literary Supplement London «