 Bowen's attention to motherhood continues throughout her "oeuvre", attending to difficult maternal figures like Mrs. Kelway in "The Heat of the Day" and Lady Naylor in "The Last September", for example.Houses loom large in Bowen's work (as is evident in "Bowen Court", her 1946 book memorialising her ancestral house, Bowen Court, one of the Irish great houses, which she was forced to sell and which was subsequently demolished) and in "The House in Paris" the main setting is the house where Naomi and Mme Fisher live, which is characterised as full, stuffy, and oppressive