In the grip of postwar privation after VE Day, the Cazalets undergo various deaths, weddings, births and divorces in this fourth volume in Howard's saga of the Cazalet family, a classic about life in England in the 20th century.
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, ...
London and Sussex, 1942. The English family in turmoil...The long, dark days of struggle provide the poignant background to the third book of the "Cazalet Chronicle". 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 ...
Home Place, Sussex, 1937. The English family at home...For two unforgettable summers they gathered together, safe from the advancing storm clouds of 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 played out their lives ...
This is a novel of love and its fragility, and the strength of family love, from one of Britain's most beloved authors.It is a beautiful, very moving, melancholic and elegiac novel set in the late 1960s in Melton, a small town in the West Country. The story revolves around a disparate group of people who come together there to establish an arts ...
In the grip of postwar privation after VE Day, the Cazalets undergo various deaths, weddings, births and divorces in this fourth volume in Howard's saga of the Cazalet family, a classic about life in England in the 20th century.
Henry Kent has been looking for someone. Anyone will do, as long as they are a woman, preferably with some money. But when writer Daisy Langrish buys a cottage close by he arouses her agent's suspicions, who discovers a chilling secret.
Takes the lives of Antonia and Conrad Fleming and relates the inside truth of their marriage. Through the construction of their story, the author discovers hidden depths in situations and people, and evokes the way in which social obligations replace youthful sensitivity.
Born in London in 1923, Elizabeth Jane Howard was privately educated at home, moving on to short-lived careers as an actress and model, before writing her first acclaimed novel, "The Beautiful Visit", in 1950. She has written 12 highly regarded novels, most recently "Falling". Her Cazalet Chronicles have become established as modern classics and ...
Anne and Edmund Cornhill have a happy marriage and a lovely home. One summer, Arabella arrives to stay - rich, rootless and amoral, she is also loving and beautiful. A web of love and desire entangles these three; but finally, it is Arabella who will lose out.
"The Beautiful Visit" is the story of a young girl growing up in the years around World War I. It won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. In "Something in Disguise", Mary's second marriage to Colonel Herbert Brown-Lacy is turning out to be a terrible mistake.
May's second marriage to Colonel Herbert Brown-Lacy is turning out to be a terrible mistake. Her children leave home to escape the Colonel, and his behaviour is beginning to become more and more sinister. "The Beautiful Visit" was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize.
Emmanuel is a famous playwright and Lilian is his sickly and embittered wife, unable to forget the death of her only child. Rich but discontented, they travel from city to city in the company of their hero-worshipping manager. Then Alberta is appointed as Emmanuel's secretary.
The author attempts to capture the longing, excitement and comedy of adolescence in this story of a young girl growing up in the years around World War I. By the author of "The Beautiful Visit", which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize.
This is a selection of stories including "Summer Picnic" and "The Devoted" which epitemize the author's earlier work, as well as more recent stories including "Child's Play" and "Pont du Gard" as well as "The Proposition" and "Whip Hand".
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 afraid of men. Cressida, her sister, a war widow, blindly searching for love in her affairs with married men. Esme, Julius' widow, still attractive at fifty-eight, but aimlessly ...
The first novel of a trilogy that chronicles the fortunes of the Cazalet family, from the early days of 1937 when the wear and tear of family life with parents, children, servants and lovers is infiltrated by the anxiety about German air power, Czechoslovakia and Chamberlain's trips to see Hitler.
Part Two of The Cazalet Chronicle, which began with the acclaimed bestseller The Light Years. The author returns to Britain and rejoins the Cazelets in September of 1939, as war breaks out and the young women of the family struggle to achieve normality in spite of the impending turmoil.
An anthology of poems, extracts from novels and writings by established writers and gardeners over the centuries, all of them based on the garden and gardening.
This volume contains two Elizabeth Jane Howard novels: "The Long View" - a portrait of a contemporary marriage and the shifting relationship within it; and "The Sea Change" - a tale of compulsion and the relationships between two men and two women whose lives become entangled.
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