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  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Pan; 5 edition (1 May 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330323156
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330323154
  • Product Dimensions: 13 x 2.6 x 19.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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'Vivid and compulsively readable' Sunday Telegraph; 'A superb novel...strangely hypnotic...very funny...surpasses even the best of what Elizabeth Jane Howard has written' The Spectator; 'The creation of a vanished historical world...engrossing' Village Voice --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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A reissue of the first in the bestselling Cazalet Chronicle
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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating read, 5 Nov 2002
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This review is from: The Light Years: v. 1 (Cazalet Chronicle) (Paperback)
Not having been born until 1973, and growing up in another country, I can't say whether Elizabeth Jane Howard's fictitious account of the life and lives of an English family during WWII and beyond is historically accurate or not, but with this much detail, she must be writing either from her own experience or from extensive research. It certainly felt very real to me.

Told from the points of view of different members of this large, extended upper-class family and its household, The Light Years gives an account of English life in the lead up to the second world war. The author gives fine details of the running of the household inside the family's country manor, the social conditions of that time and the political situation as seen through the eyes of young, middle-aged and elderly, male and female, upper, middle and lower classes, providing a fantastic tapestry of life at that time.

All of this detail could have the potential to be dry and boring, but the characters are so beautifully and realistically drawn that the reader can't help but be drawn right inside the novel and feel a part of the family. These characters begin to affect the reader in a way that is rarely seen, and after finishing "The Light Years", I couldn't wait to begin the second instalment, "Marking Time".

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Read these books - you will NOT be disappointed!, 30 Mar 2010
This review is from: The Light Years (Cazalet Chronicle) (Paperback)
if you do nothing else this year, buy the four books in the Cazalet Chronicles, they are absolutely fantastic - I deliberately tried to read the fourth and last one slowly because I didnt want it to end, but Jane Howard is such a good writer that I couldnt help myself. I have kept them and will read them again in a year or so, they are set to become "old friends" - definitely not a set that will be passed onto the PDSA shop (sorry PDSA)....
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Totally absorbing, 29 Jun 2008
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Victoriana_Mad "AJS" (Coulsdon, Surrey, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is the first book by Elizabeth Jane Howard that I have read and I loved every moment of it. The pace never slackens and I found myself wasting no opportunity to settle down and read some more. Although there are so many characters they are all so well drawn that they do not become confused. They are all likeable people, despite their flaws and foibles. What struck me most was that I actually cared about what happened to each and every one of them. The period details are not laboured but the atmosphere is unmistakeable. Can't wait for the sequel to be delivered to see what happens to the fascinating Cazalets next.
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