Review
'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
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Review
'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.
Product Description
A reissue of the first in the bestselling Cazalet Chronicle
Book Description
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 - with their relatives, their children and their servants - and the fascinating triangle of their affairs...
About the Author
Elizabeth Jane Howard is the author of fourteen highly acclaimed novels, most recently Love All. The Cazalet Chronicles - The Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion and Casting Off - have become established as modern classics and were adapted for a major BBC television series. In 2002 Macmillan published her autobiography, Slipstream. In that same year she was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.
