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This is the second in the series chronicling the fortunes of the Cazalet family. The carefree years of childhood games, large family gatherings and lavish parties, so memorably described in the first volume, Light Years, are over, the windows at Home Place have been blacked out and food is scarce. The children are growing up and now take centre stage: Louise, who is tired of being taught nothing more than how to be the lady of the house and wants to be an actress; Clary, the aspiring writer, who keeps a list of things people never talk about - like going to the lavatory and menstruation; and Polly, who is determined to do something to end the war, but is not quite sure what. Full of insight and wit, Marking Time is a story of how the unfamiliar experiences of adolescence are heightened by war, when daydreams make humdrum routine bearable but when nothing can dispel the fear of war and the sadness of death. The place to start to appreciate the full poignancy of the superb follow-up. (Kirkus UK)
A perfect if inauspicious title for this second course of Howard's Cazalet Chronicles (begun with The Light Years, 1990), since this latest is all idling before something big happens - as the Cazalet writer-to-be, Clary, puts it, "We need people to be in love with.... We'll just have to wait." The waiting begins right after Chamberlain's "peace with honor" falls through and Hitler marches into Poland. At the Sussex manse of "Brig" Cazalet - now a blind old duffer shepherded around by his faithful spinster daughter, Rachel - the much extended Cazalet family gathers with their gas masks, not to mention orphaned babies (one of Rachel's charity), wounded soldiers, and London evacuees. The Brig's eldest son, Hugh, lamed during the Great War, stays at home to blunder along with the family timber firm and to coddle his wife, Sybil, who has incurable cancer; middle son, Edward, the womanizer, joins up, spending weekend leaves sexually abusing his beautifully budding daughter, Louise, while his wife, Villy, develops a crush on a conductor; and the last son, Rupert, goes missing in action right before his young wife, Zoe, has a baby. In addition, Howard focuses on the children of this crew, including: 17-year-old Louise, who attends acting school; Clary, Rupert's daughter by his late first wife, who nicely copes with her airheaded stepmother and fills her journal feverishly; and Polly, whose chief attribute is her goodness. By the end, Japan has drawn the US into the war; there's word of Rupert, possible romance for Clary, and as always, the Cazalets marching ever on. Comfortable, literate, but very slow lane. (Kirkus Reviews)
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Home Place, September 1939: now the sunlit days of childish games and lavish family meals are over. The windows of Home Place are being blacked out, food is becoming scarce - and a new generation of Cazalets takes up the story. By the author of "The Beautiful Visit" and "Odd Girl Out".
This is the second in the series chronicling the fortunes of the Cazalet family. The carefree years of childhood games, large family gatherings and lavish parties, so memorably described in the first volume, Light Years, are over, the windows at Home Place have been blacked out and food is scarce. The children are growing up and now take centre stage: Louise, who is tired of being taught nothing more than how to be the lady of the house and wants to be an actress; Clary, the aspiring writer, who keeps a list of things people never talk about - like going to the lavatory and menstruation; and Polly, who is determined to do something to end the war, but is not quite sure what. Full of insight and wit, Marking Time is a story of how the unfamiliar experiences of adolescence are heightened by war, when daydreams make humdrum routine bearable but when nothing can dispel the fear of war and the sadness of death. The place to start to appreciate the full poignancy of the superb follow-up. (Kirkus UK)
A perfect if inauspicious title for this second course of Howard's Cazalet Chronicles (begun with The Light Years, 1990), since this latest is all idling before something big happens - as the Cazalet writer-to-be, Clary, puts it, "We need people to be in love with.... We'll just have to wait." The waiting begins right after Chamberlain's "peace with honor" falls through and Hitler marches into Poland. At the Sussex manse of "Brig" Cazalet - now a blind old duffer shepherded around by his faithful spinster daughter, Rachel - the much extended Cazalet family gathers with their gas masks, not to mention orphaned babies (one of Rachel's charity), wounded soldiers, and London evacuees. The Brig's eldest son, Hugh, lamed during the Great War, stays at home to blunder along with the family timber firm and to coddle his wife, Sybil, who has incurable cancer; middle son, Edward, the womanizer, joins up, spending weekend leaves sexually abusing his beautifully budding daughter, Louise, while his wife, Villy, develops a crush on a conductor; and the last son, Rupert, goes missing in action right before his young wife, Zoe, has a baby. In addition, Howard focuses on the children of this crew, including: 17-year-old Louise, who attends acting school; Clary, Rupert's daughter by his late first wife, who nicely copes with her airheaded stepmother and fills her journal feverishly; and Polly, whose chief attribute is her goodness. By the end, Japan has drawn the US into the war; there's word of Rupert, possible romance for Clary, and as always, the Cazalets marching ever on. Comfortable, literate, but very slow lane. (Kirkus Reviews)
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Home Place, September 1939: now the sunlit days of childish games and lavish family meals are over. The windows of Home Place are being blacked out, food is becoming scarce - and a new generation of Cazalets takes up the story. By the author of "The Beautiful Visit" and "Odd Girl Out".
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