A Death of the Heart (1000 Books to Read)

I had never heard of this book. The protagonist might be a Type 5. She is a keen observer of people. She is innocent and around a bunch of hypocrites. I liked it. 

Here is why James Mustich thinks it should be one of the 1000 Books You Read Before You Die:

James Mustich

The opening of The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen’s discerning portrayal of one woman’s coming-of-age and another’s realization that her own period of becoming has come and gone, reveals the power of perception this author calibrates with words. The sentences follow one another like facts in a natural history of sensibility. Bowen’s prose is precise, but it sets off vibrations like the strings of a viola; the resulting music is seductive, compelling, often haunted by the evocation of unresolved, and unresolvable, emotions. If you’ve ever been bewildered by the deliciously tortured delicacy of consciousness that defines the later novels of Henry James and wondered what he is trying to get at, you might read Elizabeth Bowen to find out.