Elizabeth Bowen CBE was an Anglo-Irish writer notable for her books about “the Big House” of Irish landed Protestants, as well as her fiction about life in wartime London. In 1958, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her final novel, Eva Trout, or Changing Scenes, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1969 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1970.