The Death of the Heart; Elizabeth Bowen; 1938

I stopped part of the way into chapter 2.  There's a lot of dialogue.  I like dialogue, but this feels like it should be a stage play instead of a novel.  It's not bad, but not sticky enough to make me want to read another 300 pages of it.  Maybe I'll come back to it another day.

The back cover has the following quote from Victoria Glendinning:

She is a major writer ... She is what happened after Bloomsbury ... the link that connects Virginia Woolf with Iris Murdoch and Muriel Spark.

I'll buy the connection to Iris Murdoch, but would really like to hear more of an explanation of why Bowen's writing has any connection to Virginia Woolf's or Muriel Spark's, except that they are sufficiently famous British women writing at the appropriate times to shed some fame on Bowen.