The House in Paris

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The House in Paris is a novel by Elizabeth Bowen first published in 1935.

The novel details a day spent in a house in Paris by young Henrietta and Leopold, whose visits coincide. Henrietta is passing through Paris on her way to meet her grandmother, and Leopold is waiting to meet his mother for the first time. Over the course of the day, relationships of the past and of the present resurface and become clear.

The novel has been called "one of Elizabeth Bowen's most artful and psychologically astute novels".