In the 1950s and 1960s, Elizabeth Harrower wrote some of the most intense and highly praised “psychological fiction” of the 20th century. Mysteriously, she stopped writing after shelving a manuscript for her last novel, In Certain Circles, in 1971. Her comeback story in the final decade of her life captured the public imagination and set two new biographies in motion.
Helen Trinca and Susan Wyndham both interviewed Harrower during her literary “renaissance”, before her death in 2020 at the age of 92. Their respective encounters with the elderly Harrower prompted them to write different versions of her life story.
