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      The Heat of the Day

      by Elizabeth Bowen
      Published
      Feb 1979
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      384
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      In The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen brilliantly recreates the tense and dangerous atmosphere of London during the bombing raids of World War II.

      Many people have fled the city, and those who stayed behind find themselves thrown together in an odd intimacy born of crisis. Stella Rodney is one of those who chose to stay. But for her, the sense of impending catastrophe becomes acutely personal when she discovers that her lover, Robert, is suspected of selling secrets to the enemy, and that the man who is following him wants Stella herself as the price of his silence. Caught between these two men, not sure whom to believe, Stella finds her world crumbling as she learns how little we can truly know of those around us.

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      General Fiction

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      Historical

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      First Edition Feb 1979 Avon ISBN13 9780380423095 ISBN10 038042309X
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      Dec 1990 Penguin ISBN13 9780140183016 ISBN10 0140183019
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      Jul 2002 Anchor ISBN13 9780385721288 ISBN10 0385721285
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      Jan 1949 Random House ISBN13 9780224600552 ISBN10 0224600559
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      Dec 1981 Buccaneer Books ISBN13 9780899662596 ISBN10 0899662595
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