 Eva Trout (novel)

Eva Trout is Elizabeth Bowen's final novel and was shortlisted for the 1970 Booker Prize.First published in 1968, it is about a young woman—the —who, abandoned by her mother just after her birth, raised by nurses and nannies and educated by governesses all hired by her millionaire father, has difficulty acting and behaving like an adult when, shortly after her father's suicide, she inherits all his money.