Eva Trout Ann Weisgarber Hamo Langmuir flies westwards round

Hamo Langmuir flies westwards round the world to examine the effects of his miraculous high-yielding rice

Twelve-year-old Tunde is just your average kid: average friends

a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma

and of extraordinary human survival

Eva Trout Ann Weisgarber Hamo Langmuir flies westwards roundEva Trout, Elizabeth Bowens 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