The Heat of the Day - Softcover

"Imagine a Graham Greene thriller projected through the sensibility of Virginia Woolf." --The Atlantic Monthly

"[Bowen] startles us by sheer originality of mind and boldness of sensibility into seeking our world afresh. . . . Out of the plainest things--the drawing of a curtain--she can make something electric and urgent." --V. S. Pritchett

"Dense as a poem with symbol and suggestion. . . . The work of a writer [of] rich and winning gifts." --Time

"Miss Bowen [has] power to evoke, suggest and explore down oblique and little-frequented avenues the mysterious centers of human conduct." --The New York Times

In London, at the height of the German bombing during World War II, Stella Rodney finds her world turned upside down when she discovers that her lover, Robert, is suspected of selling secrets to the enemy and that his enigmatic pursuer, Harrison, will exchange his silence for Stella herself. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.