This classic novel, by famous Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen, is about a young woman’s coming-of-age in the 1920s. In The Last September, the reader is introduced to the members of an upper-class social milieu who attempt to maintain a cheery façade even though their lives are being violently disrupted by the end of British rule in Ireland. The central character, Lois, is torn as she tries to gain freedom from the society that her relatives are bent on defending in this exciting novel. | The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen, Paperback | Indigo Chapters