Elizabeth Jane Howard

The third story of the Cazalet family opens in the spring of 1942 and follows through to VE day, 8 May 1945. Polly and Clary have left Home Place for London; Louise has wed; Polly and Archie Lestrange each fall in love. Sombre days are echoed in the struggles of the characters' lives.

Journeying backward in time—from 1950 to 1926—this masterpiece of women’s literary fiction presents an indelible portrait of a marriage
 
Forty-three-year-old Antonia Fleming is preparing a dinner party for eight at the house in Campden Hill Square she shares with her husband, Conrad. The occasion is the engagement of their son, Julian. Their other child, Deirdre, hates her father and resents her mother—a...

Getting it right was not Gavin Lamb's forte, at least where human relationships were concerned. In the hairdressing salon, he was expert with the tools of his trade. But, back home with his mother, it was quite a different matter. He didn't know how to deal with women; he was the prototype late developer. But after Joan's party, he would never be the same again ...

The author of the bestselling Cazalet Chronicles brilliantly captures the coming-of-age hopes and yearnings of an adolescent English girl during World War I   The fourth child born to a struggling musician and a mother who's an incurable romantic, Lavinia lives an unremarkable existence. But a visit to a sprawling country estate transforms her world and becomes the touchstone for the rest of her life.   Lavinia is sixteen when she's invited to a...

A short story anthology of thrills, chills, and the impulses and longings that drive us, from the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles.   In this dazzling collection, author Elizabeth Jane Howard mines the rich terrain of the heart with her trademark wit and style, as well as a Hitchcockian dose of spine-tingling suspense.   In "Pont du Gard," a man on holiday with his sixteen-year-old daughter and her best friend gets his comeuppance when...

Collected here are four of her finest novels, including her award-winning debut, The Beautiful Visit. The Long View: This revealing portrait of a marriage is told in reverse chronological order, from a dinner party in 1950 to the first fateful meeting of Antonia and Conrad Fleming in 1926, poignantly capturing a long relationship with its moments of joy and intimacy, loneliness and heartbreak, and longing and regret for the roads not taken. The Sea...

The complete multigenerational saga of an upper-middle-class British family before, during, and after World War II. As war clouds gather on England's horizon, the Cazalet siblings, along with their wives, children, and servants, prepare to leave London and join their parents at their Sussex estate, Home Place. Thus begins the decades-spanning family saga that has engrossed millions of readers. * The Light Years: Hugh, the eldest of the Cazalet siblings,...

The intimate and revealing memoir of the woman behind the bestselling Cazalet Chronicles and a fascinating window into the British literary world.   One of Britain's most famous and beloved authors, Elizabeth Jane Howard's life was as rich, varied, and passionate as the characters in her novels. In her brutally honest, at times humorous, wholly captivating autobiography, the woman who felt she lived "in the slipstream of experience" employs her prodigious...