Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Writing : the enforced return
  • The ghost in the house : Bowen's court (1942) and 'The back drawing-room' (1926)
  • Discovery of a lack : The last September (1928)
  • A ghost of style : A world of love (1955)
  • Mother and child : The house in Paris (1935)
  • Motherless child : The death of the heart (1938)
  • Childless mother : the disfigurations of Eva Trout or changing scenes (1968)
  • Words in the dark : The demon lover and other stories (1945)
  • War's stories : The heat of the day (1946) and its contexts.