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La saga des Cazalet Tome 5 : La fin d'une ère
Elizabeth Jane Howard
- Folio
- Folio
- 15 Août 2024
- 9782073059277
Neuf années ont passé depuis le mariage de Polly, l'union de Clary et d'Archie et le divorce de Louise. Une nouvelle génération a vu le jour et, quand la Duche s'éteint en juin 1956, elle emporte avec elle les derniers vestiges d'un monde révolu. Remariés, Hugh et Edward font face aux difficultés financières de l'entreprise familiale ; Louise, désormais mannequin, s'éprend d'un homme marié, tandis que Polly et Clary tentent de trouver un équilibre entre leur foyer et leurs ambitions personnelles. Libérée de ses parents, Rachel peut se construire une vie à elle, mais la santé fragile de Sid est un nouvel obstacle à franchir. Pour les trois jeunes cousins, Teddy, Simon et Neville, l'heure est venue de choisir leur voie. Home Place, bien que légèrement décrépit, demeure un lieu de refuge et de souvenirs. Difficile pour les Cazalet d'imaginer que leur prochain Noël dans le Sussex sera peut-être le dernier...
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La saga des Cazalet Tome 1 : étés anglais
Elizabeth Jane Howard
- Folio
- Folio
- 14 Octobre 2021
- 9782072921810
Juillet 1937, Sussex. Dans la propriété de Home Place, la Duche, affairée avec ses domestiques, prépare l'arrivée de la famille au grand complet : ses trois fils, Hugh, Edward et Rupert Cazalet, sont en chemin depuis Londres avec épouses, enfants et gouvernantes. Entre pique-niques sur la plage et soirées auprès du gramophone, les intrigues familiales se succèdent. Aux préoccupations des adultes font écho les inquiétudes des enfants, et à la résilience des femmes répond la toute-puissance - ou l'impuissance - des hommes. L'été regorge d'incertitudes mais, sans l'ombre d'un doute, une nouvelle guerre approche...
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La saga des Cazalet Tome 2 : à rude épreuve
Elizabeth Jane Howard
- Folio
- Folio
- 6 Octobre 2022
- 9782072964527
Septembre 1939. Réunie à Home Place, la famille Cazalet apprend l'entrée en guerre de l'Angleterre à la radio. On ferme les demeures londoniennes les unes après les autres pour se mettre à l'abri dans le Sussex, où les préoccupations de chacun - parent, enfant ou domestique - sont régulièrement interrompues par les raids allemands. Polly se tourne vers les discours pacifistes de Christopher, tandis que Clary élabore mille scénarios pour expliquer le silence de son père, disparu sur les côtes françaises. Pendant ce temps, Louise fait ses débuts dans le théâtre, fume et porte des pantalons, au grand dam de sa famille. Les temps sont sombres mais chez les Cazalet, la vie se poursuit entre amours, espoir et secrets. À rude épreuve est le deuxième tome de la saga des Cazalet, initiée avec Étés anglais.
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Mars 1942. Polly et Clary ont dix-sept ans et n'aspirent qu'à une chose : échapper à l'étau familial. Depuis la disparition de leurs parents, elles se heurtent au silence borné du clan Cazalet qui refuse d'évoquer les sujets graves. À quel modèle les deux jeunes filles peuvent-elles bien s'identifier désormais ? Leur cousine Louise abandonne sa carrière d'actrice pour devenir mère. Leur tante Rachel est si dévouée à ses parents qu'elle en oublie sa propre vie. Et pendant que Zoë s'éprend d'un Américain, les infidélités d'Oncle Edward menacent de tout faire voler en éclats. Malgré les sirènes et les bombardements, Londres semble toujours plus attirante que Home Place, où règnent un froid glacial et une atmosphère de plomb... Après Étés anglais et À rude épreuve, la saga des Cazalet se poursuit avec Confusion.
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La saga des Cazalet Tome 4 : nouveau départ
Elizabeth Jane Howard
- Folio
- Folio
- 5 Octobre 2023
- 9782073017642
Juillet 1945. Deux mois après la fin de la guerre, la famille Cazalet décide de quitter Home Place pour retourner vivre à Londres. Pourtant, si la paix est enfin signée, rien ne sera jamais plus comme avant... L'Angleterre reste encore sous le coup des privations et des bouleversements politiques. Les plus âgés des enfants Cazalet, désormais adultes, doivent apprendre à composer avec leurs parents dont ils découvrent que les préoccupations ne sont pas si éloignées des leurs. Clary, Polly et Louise s'efforcent de tracer leur voie, entre mésaventures et déconvenues amoureuses, tandis que Rupert, Hugh et Edward doivent faire des choix dont les conséquences affectent non seulement leur vie personnelle mais aussi celle de la famille entière...
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La saga des Cazalet : Étés anglais - À rude épreuve - Confusion - Nouveau départ - La fin d'une ère
Elizabeth Jane Howard
- Folio
- Folio
- 7 Novembre 2024
- 9782073084521
Se déployant sur trois générations, la saga des Cazalet suit l'histoire d'une famille britannique du Sussex de la Grande Guerre à la mort de leur matriarche bien-aimée dans les années 1950, en passant par les mariages des uns et les séparations des autres, les deuils et les naissances, les petits malheurs quotidiens et les grandes joies de l'existence. Au fil des ans, le monde moderne pointant le bout de son nez, les Cazalet doivent eux aussi changer et délaisser peu à peu leur mode de vie traditionnel, dont Home Place, le manoir où ils aiment à se retrouver, sera peut-être un jour le dernier vestige.
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À soixante et un ans, Emmanuel Joyce est un dramaturge à succès. Accompagné de sa femme Lillian et de son manager dévoué Jimmy Sullivan, qui partage leur vie nomade, il s'apprête à quitter Londres le temps de repérer une comédienne pour la production de sa dernière pièce à Broadway. Alors qu'aucune candidate ne fait l'affaire, surgit l'idée de confier le rôle à Alberta, sa secrétaire de dix-neuf ans, tout droit sortie du presbytère de son père dans le Dorset. Seulement, il faudra lui apprendre le métier. Ils embarquent pour l'île grecque d'Hydra où Jimmy aura six semaines pour faire répéter l'ingénue, tandis qu'Emmanuel tâchera de renouer avec l'écriture. Lillian, fragilisée par sa maladie de coeur et dévastée par la mort de leur fille survenue plusieurs années auparavant, profitera de cette parenthèse loin des mondanités du théâtre pour tenter d'exorciser ses démons. Pourtant, elle ne sait se défaire de certains tourments : et si Emmanuel s'éprenait de la délicieuse Alberta ? Le temps d'un été brûlant, la dynamique qui lie les quatre exilés prend une tournure inattendue, et la vie de chacun change de cap.
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All Change is the fifth and final volume in Elizabeth Jane Howard''s bestselling The Cazalet Chronicles. where the old world begins to fade from view and a new dawn emerges. It is the 1950s and as the Duchy, the Cazalets'' beloved matriarch, dies, she takes with her the last remnants of a disappearing world - houses with servants, class, and tradition - in which the Cazalets have thrived. Louise, now divorced, becomes entangled in a painful affair, while Polly and Clary must balance marriage and motherhood with their own ideas and ambitions. Hugh and Edward, now in their sixties, are feeling ill-equipped for this modern world, while Villy, long abandoned by her husband, must at last learn to live independently. But it is Rachel, who has always lived for others, who will face her greatest challenges yet. As the Cazalets descend on Home Place for Christmas, only one thing is certain: nothing will ever be the same again. With cover artwork exclusively designed by artist Luke Edward Hall, this is the heartbreaking and heartwarming final installment of Elizabeth Jane Howard''s bestselling series. ''She is one of those novelists who shows, through her work, what the novel is for . . . She helps us to do the necessary thing - open our eyes and our hearts'' - Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall
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Beautifully and poignantly told, Marking Time is the second novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard''s bestselling Cazalet Chronicles. Home Place, Sussex, 1939. As the shadows of the Second World War roll in, banishing the sunlit days of childish games and trips to the coast, a new generation of Cazalets take up the family''s story. Louise, who dreams of becoming a great actress, finds herself facing the harsh reality that her parents have their own lives with secrets, passions and yearnings. Clary, an aspiring writer, learns that her beloved father is now missing somewhere on the shores of France. And sensitive, imaginative Polly feels stuck - stuck without a vocation, stuck without information about her mother''s illness, stuck without anything except her nightmares about the war. With cover artwork exclusively designed by artist Luke Edward Hall, this is the second volume of the extraordinary Cazalet Chronicles and a perfect addition to your collection. Marking Time is followed by Confusion , the third book in the series. ''Charming, poignant and quite irresistible . . . to be cherished and shared'' - Times
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The Cazalet Chronicles continues with Confusion , the third installment, set in the height of the Second World War and where chaos has become a way of life for the Cazalet family. It''s 1942 and the dark days of war seem never-ending. Scattered across the still-peaceful Sussex countryside and air-raid-threatened London, the divided Cazalets begin to find the battle for survival echoing the confusion in their own lives. Headstrong, independent Louise surprises the whole family when she abandons her dreams of being an actress and instead makes a society marriage. Polly and Clary, now in their late teens, finally fulfil their ambition of living together in London. But the reality of the city is not quite what they imagined, and Polly is struggling to come to terms with the death of her mother and manage her grieving father. Clary, meanwhile, is painfully aware that what she lacks in beauty she makes up for in intelligence, and is the only member of the family who believes that her father might not be dead. With cover artwork exclusively designed by artist Luke Edward Hall, this is the heartbreaking and heartwarming third installment of Elizabeth Jane Howard''s bestselling series. It is followed by the fourth book, Casting Off. ''Charming, poignant and quite irresistible . . . to be cherished and shared'' - The Times
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The Second World War has finally ended and so begins a new era of freedom and opportunity for the Cazalet family. Elizabeth Jane Howard''s magnificent Cazalet Chronicles continues with Casting Off, the fourth novel in the saga. The Cazalet cousins are now in their twenties, trying to piece together their lives in the aftermath of the war. Louise is faced with her father''s new mistress and her mother''s grief at his betrayal, while suffering in a loveless marriage of her own. Clary is struggling to understand why her beloved father chose to stay in France long after it was safe to return to Britain, and both she and Polly are madly in love with much older men. Polly, Clary and Louise must face the truth about the adult world, while their fathers - Rupert, Hugh and Edward - must make choices that will decide their own, and the family''s, future. With cover artwork exclusively designed by artist Luke Edward Hall, this is the heartbreaking and heartwarming fourth instalment of Elizabeth Jane Howard''s bestselling series. It is followed by All Change , the fifth and final book in the series. ''Charming, poignant and quite irresistible . . . to be cherished and shared'' - The Times
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B>Confusion is the third novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling Cazalet Chronicles./b>London and Sussex, 1942. The privileged English family in turmoil . . . The long, dark days of struggle provide the poignant background to the third book of the Cazalet Chronicles. As the war enters its fourth year, chaos has become a way of life. Both in the still peaceful Sussex countryside, and in air-raid-threatened London, the divided Cazalets begin to find the battle for survival echoing the confusion in their own lives.Read the next books in the series, Casting Off and All Change, or start from the beginning with The Light Years and Marking Time.
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B>Marking Time is the second novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling Cazalet Chronicles./b>Home Place, Sussex, 1939. The English family at war . . . The sunlit days of childish games and family meals are over, as the shadows of war roll in to cloud the lives of one English family. At Home Place, the windows are blacked out and food is becoming scarce as a new generation of Cazalets takes up the story. Louise dreams of being a great actress, Clary is an aspiring writer, while Polly, is burdened with knowledge and the need to share it.b>Read the next books in the series, Confusion, Casting Off and All Change, or start from the beginning with The Light Years./b>
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b>With an introduction by Hilary Mantel./b>b>Originally published in 1956, The Long View is Elizabeth Jane Howard's uncannily authentic portrait of one marriage and one woman. Observant and heartbreaking, written with exhilarating wit, it is a gut-wrenching account of the birth and death of a relationship - as extraordinary as it is timeless./b>br>b>/b>br>One of his secret pleasures was the loading of social dice against himself. He did not seem for one moment to consider the efforts made by kind or sensitive people to even things up: or if such notions ever occurred to him, he would have observed them with detached amusement, and reloaded more dice. In 1950s London, Antonia Fleming faces the prospect of a life lived alone. Her children are now adults; her husband Conrad, a domineering and emotionally complex man, is a stranger. As Antonia looks towards her future, the novel steadily moves backwards in time, tracing Antonia's relationship with Conrad to its beginning in the 1920s, through years of mistake and motherhood, dreams and war.
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B>Casting Off is the fourth novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling Cazalet Chronicles./b>The aftermath of war, and the slow dawning of a new era of freedom and opportunity, shape the destinies of the Cazalets in the fourth volume of this magnificent family saga. Polly, Clary and Louise, now grown up, are ready to discover the truth about the adult world. While Rupert, Hugh and Edward must make the choices that will decide their own - and the family's - future. For the Cazalets, and all those close to them, one end is another beginning . . .Read the next book in the series, All Change, or start from the beginning with The Light Years, Marking Time and Confusion.
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From the bestselling author of The Cazalet Chronicles, The Sea Change is a witty yet heart-rending story of a marriage in crisis.Emmanuel is a famous playwright. Lillian is his sickly and embittered wife. They have never fully buried the memory of their dead daughter, Sarah. Rich but discontented, they flit from capital to capital in the company of their hero-worshipping young manager.Then Alberta, straight from an English vicarage and the pages of Jane Austen, is appointed as Emmanuel's secretary. This prim and utterly delightful figure helps the family in ways they didn't know they needed. One by one the leopards change their spots . . .
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As featured on BBC Radio 4 Open Book
Beautifully and poignantly told, Marking Time is the second novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard''s bestselling family saga The Cazalet Chronicles, set during the onset of World War II.
''She helps us to do the necessary thing - open our eyes and our hearts'' - Hilary Mantel, bestselling author of Wolf Hall
Home Place, Sussex, 1939. As the shadows of the Second World War roll in, banishing the sun-drenched days of childish games and trips to the coast, a new generation of Cazalets takes up the family''s story.
Louise, who dreams of becoming a great actress, finds herself facing the harsh reality that her parents have their own lives with secrets, passions and yearnings. Clary, an aspiring writer, learns that her beloved father, Rupert, is now missing somewhere on the shores of France. And sensitive, imaginative Polly feels stuck, haunted by her nightmares about the war.
''Charming, poignant and quite irresistible . . . to be cherished and shared'' - The Times
Marking Time is the second volume of the extraordinary Cazalet Chronicles and a perfect addition to your collection. Marking Time is followed by Confusion, the third book in the series. -
As featured on BBC Radio 4 Open Book
The Second World War has finally ended and so begins a new era of freedom and opportunity for the Cazalet family in Casting Off, the fourth novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard''s magnificent Cazalet Chronicles.
''She helps us to do the necessary thing - open our eyes and our hearts'' - Hilary Mantel, bestselling author of Wolf Hall
The Cazalet cousins are now in their twenties, trying to piece together their lives in the aftermath of the Second World War. Louise is faced with her father''s new mistress and her mother''s grief at his betrayal, while suffering a loveless marriage of her own. Clary is struggling to understand why her beloved father chose to stay in France long after it was safe to return to Britain, and both she and Polly are madly in love with much older men.
As Polly, Clary and Louise face the truth about the adult world, their fathers - Rupert, Hugh and Edward - must make choices that will decide their own, and the family''s, future.
''Howard . . . writes about pain, loss and longing superbly well'' - Monica Ali, bestselling author of Love Marriage
Casting Off is the heartbreaking and heartwarming fourth instalment of Elizabeth Jane Howard''s bestselling series. It is followed by All Change, the fifth and final book in the series. -
ALL CHANGE ; THE HEARTWARMING CONCLUSION TO THE BELOVED HISTORICAL SERIES
Elizabeth Jane Howard
- Picador Uk
- 27 Juin 2024
- 9781035042487
As featured on BBC Radio 4 Open Book
As the old world begins to fade from view and a new dawn emerges, All Change marks the fifth and final volume in Elizabeth Jane Howard''s bestselling Cazalet Chronicles.
''She helps us to do the necessary thing - open our eyes and our hearts'' - Hilary Mantel, bestselling author of Wolf Hall
It is the 1950s and as the Duchy, the Cazalets'' beloved matriarch, dies, she takes with her the last remnants of a disappearing world - houses with servants, classes and tradition - in which the Cazalets have thrived.
Louise, now divorced, becomes entangled in a painful affair, while Polly and Clary must balance marriage and motherhood with their own ideas and ambitions. Hugh and Edward, now in their sixties, feel ill-equipped for this changing world, while Villy, long abandoned by her husband, must at last learn to live independently. But it is Rachel, who has always lived for others, who will face her greatest challenges yet. And nothing will ever be the same again.
''Like Ferrante, Howard''s fictional sphere is domestic and yet reveals deeper truths about human nature'' - Elizabeth Day, bestselling author of Magpie
All Change is the heartbreaking and heartwarming final instalment of Elizabeth Jane Howard''s bestselling series. -
From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles comes Elizabeth Jane Howard''s Love All.
The late 1960s. For Persephone Plover, the daughter of distant and neglectful parents, the innocent, isolated days of childhood are long past. Now she must deal with the emotions of an adult world . . .
Meanwhile in Melton, in the West Country, Jack Curtis - a self-made millionaire - has employed Persephone''s aunt, a garden designer in her sixties, to deal with the terraces and glasshouses of the once beautiful local manor house he has acquired at vast expense. He also has plans to start an arts festival, as a means to avoid the loneliness of the recently divorced.
Also in Melton are the Musgrove siblings, Thomas and Mary, whose parents originally owned and lived in Melton House. They are still trying to cope with emotional consequences of the tragic death of Thomas''s wife, Celia . . . as is Francis, Celia''s brother, who has come to live with them and thereby, perhaps, to find his way through life. -
From the lauded, bestselling author of The Cazalet Chronicles, After Julius is Elizabeth Jane Howard''s funny yet touching story of a family brought together yet falling apart.
''A novel that commands both respect and applause'' - Sunday Times It is twenty years since Julius died, but his last heroic action still affects the lives of the people he left behind.
Emma, his youngest daughter, twenty-seven years old and afraid of men. Cressida, her sister, a war widow, blindly searching for love in her affairs with married men. Esme, Julius''s widow, still attractive at fifty-eight, but aimlessly lost in the routine of her perfect home. Felix, Esme''s old lover, who left her when Julius died and who is still plagued by guilt for his action. And then there is Dan - an outsider.
Throughout a disastrous - and revelatory - weekend in Sussex, the influence of the dead Julius slowly emerges . . .
''Her talent seemed so effervescent, so unstoppable, that there was no predicting where it might take her'' - Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall -
THE LIGHT YEARS - CAZALET CHRONICLES 1
Elizabeth Jane Howard
- Pan Books
- 7 Novembre 2013
- 9780330323154
B>The Light Years is the first novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling Cazalet Chronicles./b>Home Place, Sussex, 1937. The English family at home . . . For two unforgettable summers they gathered together, safe from the advancing storm clouds of the Second World War. In the heart of the Sussex countryside these were still sunlit days of childish games, lavish family meals and picnics on the beach. Three generations of the Cazalet family. Their relatives, their children and their servants - and the fascinating triangle of their affairs . . .Read the next books in the series, Marking Time, Confusion, Casting Off and All Change.
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As featured on BBC Radio 4 Open Book
Set in the height of the Second World War, The Cazalet Chronicles continues with the third in the series, Confusion, where chaos has become a way of life for the Cazalet family.
''She helps us to do the necessary thing - open our eyes and our hearts'' - Hilary Mantel, bestselling author of Wolf Hall
It''s 1942 and the dark days of war seem never-ending. Scattered across the still-peaceful Sussex countryside and air-raid-threatened London, the divided Cazalets begin to find the battle for survival echoing the confusion in their own lives.
Headstrong, independent Louise surprises the whole family when she abandons her dreams of being an actress and instead makes a society marriage. Polly, now living in London with Clary, is struggling to come to terms with the death of her mother and manage her grieving father. Meanwhile, Clary is painfully aware that what she lacks in beauty she makes up for in intelligence, and is the only member of the family who believes that her father might not be dead . . .
''[N]o detail is too small to be included, so charged with significance is the material envelope of that lost world'' - Tessa Hadley, bestselling author of After the Funeral
Confusion is the heartbreaking and heartwarming third instalment of Elizabeth Jane Howard''s bestselling series. It is followed by the fourth book, Casting Off. -
From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles comes Elizabeth Jane Howard's Falling.Harry Kent is a sensitive man in late middle age, a reader and a thinker, without means perhaps but not without charm.Daisy has recovered from her unhappy past by learning to be self-sufficient, and viewing trust as a weakness. But there is still a part of her that yearns to be cared for once more.It is this part that Henry sees, and with dedicated and calculated patience he works at her defences. So despite all attempts to resist his attentions, Daisy finds herself falling under Henry's spell . . .
