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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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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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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. -
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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 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
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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 -
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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 . . .
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Every summer, the Cazalet brothers, Hugh, Edward and Rupert, return to the family home in the heart of the Sussex countryside with their wives and children. There, they are joined by their parents and unmarried sister Rachel to enjoy two blissful months of picnics and childish games. But despite the idyllic setting, nothing can be done to soothe the siblings' heartache: Hugh is haunted by the ravages of war, Edward by his latest infidelity and Rupert by his inability to please his demanding wife. Meanwhile, Rachel risks losing her only chance at happiness because of her unflinching loyalty to the family. Howard's beautiful saga is the story of three generations of the Cazalet family. Their relatives, their children and their servants - and the fascinating triangle of their affairs . . . The Light Years is the first novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling five-part series.
