Books with author Elizabeth Bowen

“Reading The Pull of the Moon is like sitting down for a long, satisfying chat with a best girlfriend…. [It] pleasantly encourages readers to recover a little life-embracing enthusiasm themselves.” —Orlando SentinelIn the middle of her life, Nan decides to leave her husband at home and begin an impromptu trek across the country, carrying with her a turquoise leather journal she intends to fill. The Pull of the Moon is a novel about a woman coming to terms with issues of importance to all women. In her journal, Nan addresses the thorniness—and the allure—of marriage, the sweet ties to children, and the gifts and lessons that come from random encounters with strangers, including a handsome man appearing out of the woods and a lonely housewife sitting on her front porch steps. Most of all, Nan writes about the need for the self to stay alive. In this luminous and exquisitely written novel, Elizabeth Berg shows how sometimes you have to leave your life behind in order to find it.“This is not a novel about a woman leaving home but rather about a human being finding her way back.” —Chicago Tribune“When was the last time you thought about running away?…. In The Pull of the Moon, Berg shares her strength, the wonderful widening of her soul so that we, too, can take the journey in the ease of our chair.” —Greensboro News & Record“Berg’s gift as a storyteller lies most powerfully in her ability to find the extraordinary in the ordinary, the remarkable in the everyday.” —The Boston Globe

"I'd come to love how the ocean and sky looked from here, vast and beautiful, as they merged into a blue horizon. It reminded me of freedom, and home." Home. What Emma wouldn't give to be there now. Instead, she's barely surviving train explosions, hunting Pirates down the Great River, jumping off bridges, running from Raiders, and attempting rescue missions. Home. For Cameron, it's a dissolving fantasy. Arguing with what family he has left, searching for survivors from the train attack, fighting old friends and burying others, destroying the Pirates, and hoping that he and Emma will survive it all. From author C.B. Elizabeth, Blue Horizon is the final book in the New Freeland Trilogy.

"Not a novel about a woman leaving home, but . . . a human being finding her way back." —Chicago Tribune "Turning 50 seems to turn women crazy. When Nan hits this mark, she hits the road, leaving behind her home and husband. Driving west from Boston, she consults only her own pleasure. And while this sounds easy, it is often arduous for Nan, who can hardly remember what her own pleasure is . . . The Pull of the Moon is upbeat from beginning to end." —Boston Sunday Globe "Measured, delicate, and impossible to walk away from." —Entertainment Weekly