Eva Trout

Eva Trout Elizabeth Bowen’s last novel epitomizes her bold exploration of the territory between the comedy of manners and cutting social commentary.. Orphaned at a young age Eva has found a home of sorts in Worcestershire with her former schoolteacher Iseult Arbles and Iseult's husband Eric. From a safe distance in London her legal guardian Constantine assumes that all's well. But Eva's flighty romantic nature hasn't entirely clicked with the Arbles household and Eva is plotting to escape. When she sets out to hock her Jaguar and disappear without a trace she unwittingly leaves a paper trail for her various custodians–and all kinds of trouble–to follow.