author (which bears the words of John Sparrow) at the entrance to St Colman's Church, where a commemoration of her life is held annually. Legacy In 1977, Victoria Glendinning published the first biography of Elizabeth Bowen. In 2009, Glendinning published a book about the relationship between Charles Ritchie and Bowen, based on his diaries and her letters to him. In 2012, English Heritage marked Bowen's Regent's Park home at Clarence Terrace with a blue plaque. A blue plaque was unveiled 19 October 2014 to mark Bowen's residence at the Coach House, The Croft, Headington, from 1925 to 1935. Themes Bowen was greatly interested in "life with the lid on and what happens when the lid comes off", in the innocence of orderly life, and in the eventual, irrepressible forces that transform experience. Bowen also examined the betrayal and secrets that lie beneath a veneer of respectability. The style of her works is highly wrought and owes much to literary modernism. She was an admirer of film and influenced by the filmmaking techniques of her day. The locations in which Bowen's works are set often bear heavily on the psychology of the characters and on the plots. Bowen's war novel The Heat of the Day (1948) is considered one of the quintessential depictions of London’s atmosphere during the bombing raids of World War II. She was also a notable writer of ghost stories. Supernatural fiction writer Robert Aickman considered Elizabeth Bowen to be "the most distinguished living practitioner" of ghost stories. He included her tale 'The Demon Lover' in his anthology The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories. Selected works Novels The Hotel (1927) The Last September (1929) Friends and Relations (1931) To the North (1932) The House in Paris (1935) The Death of the Heart (1938) The Heat of the Day (1949) A World of Love (1955) The Little Girls (1964) Eva Trout (1968) Short story collections Encounters (1923) Ann Lee's and Other Stories (1926) Joining Charles and Other Stories (1929) The Cat Jumps and Other Stories (1934) Look at All Those Roses (1941) The Demon Lover and Other Stories (1945) Ivy Gripped the Steps and Other Stories (1946, USA) Stories by Elizabeth Bowen (1959) A Day in the Dark and Other Stories (1965) The Good Tiger (1965, children's book) - illustrated by M. Nebel (1965 edition) and Quentin Blake (1970 edition) Elizabeth Bowen’s Irish Stories (1978) The Collected