The plan is that she is to stay with them for one year at which time Portia will leave and move in with Irene's sister (Portia's aunt). Portia was sent to live with Thomas and Anna after Irene's death. Irene and Portia continued to live in this fashion until, when Portia was 16, Irene died. Quayne, Irene, and Portia then left England and traveled through Europe as exiles from society and from the Quayne family, living in the cheapest of lodgings. Quayne divorced Thomas's mother and married Irene. Quayne learned of it, she was adamant that he do what was the right thing: so, at his own wife's unyielding insistence, Mr. Quayne (Thomas's father) had an extramarital affair with Irene (Portia's mother) while married to Thomas's mother. It is about a sixteen-year-old orphan, Portia Quayne, who moves to London to live with her half-brother Thomas and falls in love with Eddie, a friend of her sister-in-law.Īt the beginning of the novel, Portia moves in with Anna and Thomas Quayne after her mother dies. The Death of the Heart is a 1938 novel by Elizabeth Bowen set in the interwar period.
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