{"product_id":"2026200012499-secondhand-the-heat-of-the-day","title":"The Heat Of The Day","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the shadow-laden streets of wartime London during the Blitz, The Heat of the Day is a masterwork of psychological suspense that chronicles the fraught love affair between Stella Rodney, a widowed intelligence worker, and Robert Caldicott, the man she loves — until a mysterious stranger arrives with a chilling accusation: that Robert is passing secrets to the enemy. Elizabeth Bowen constructs her narrative with the precision of a watchmaker, weaving together the personal and the political, the domestic and the espionage-driven, to produce a portrait of a society living simultaneously in heightened awareness and wilful blindness.\n\nBowen's prose is famously oblique and luminous, capturing the disorientation of a world in which the familiar has been made strange by bombs, blackouts, and moral compromise. The Heat of the Day stands as one of the defining British novels of the Second World War, not merely as a document of its era but as a profound meditation on identity, loyalty, and the elusiveness of truth. Beneath every exchange of dialogue and every bombed-out London streetscape lies the unnerving question: in a time when the whole world is lying, can anyone — or anything — truly be known?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130945020123,"sku":"2026200012499-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/5f9750a1-8209-45d0-a370-8b9a0588ca12.png?v=1786593076","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200012499-secondhand-the-heat-of-the-day","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}