Eva Trout (novel)

Eva Trout is a 1968 novel by Elizabeth Bowen. It is her final novel and was shortlisted for the 1970 Booker Prize. The story concerns a young woman—the eponymous heroine—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.