In The Heat of the Day Elizabeth Bowen brilliantly recreates the tense anddangerous atmosphere of London during the bombing raids of World War II.Many people ha... » 

In The Heat of the Day Elizabeth Bowen brilliantly recreates the tense anddangerous atmosphere of London during the bombing raids of World War II.Many people have fled the city and those who stayed behind find themselvesthrown together in an odd intimacy born of crisis. Stella Rodney is one ofthose who chose to stay. But for her the sense of impending catastrophebecomes acutely personal when she discovers that her lover Robert issuspected of selling secrets to the enemy and that the man who is followinghim wants Stella herself as the price of his silence. Caught between these twomen not sure whom to believe Stella finds her world crumbling as she learnshow little we can truly know of those around us. «