A Time in RomeA great writer she is what happened after Bloomsbury the link that connects Virginia Woolf with Iris Murdoch and Muriel Spark Victoria Glendinning A Time in Rome by Elizabeth Bowen is no ordinary guidebook but an evocation of a city its history, its architecture, and, above all, its atmosphere. In this account of her time spent in Rome, Bowen doesn't just describe the famous classical sites; she conjures from the ruins visions of former inhabitants