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When 11-year-old Henrietta finds the Fishers' well-appointed house in Paris, she actually is ready to spend her day between trains taken care of by an old good friend of her grandmother's. Henrietta longs to see a few sights in the foreign city; little does she know very well what fascinating secrets the Fisher house itself is made up of. For Henrietta discovers that her visit coincides your of Leopold, an strong child who may have come to Paris to be unveiled to the mother he has never known. In the course of an individual day, the relations between Leopold, Henrietta's agitated hostess Naomi Fisher, Leopold's incomprehensible mother, his deceased dad, and the dying matriarch in bed upstairs emerged gradually and tantalizingly. And when Henrietta leaves the house that night time, it is possession of the kind of grave knowledge usually reserved limited to adults. One of Elizabeth Bowen's most artful and psychologically serious novels, The House in Paris is a ageless masterpiece of nuance and atmosphere, and represents the most effective of Bowen's celebrated oeuvre.
