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Honest and unflinching, this book illuminates the literary world of the latter half of the 20th century, as well as giving a personal insight into the life of Elizabeth Jane Howard.
The Light Years is a modern classic of twentieth-century English
life in the countryside, and is the first novel in Elizabeth Jane
Howard's extraordinary, bestselling family saga The Cazalet
Chronicles. Every summer, the Cazalet brothers - Hugh, Edward and
Rupert - return to the family home in the heart of the Sussex
countryside with their wives and children. There, they are joined
by their parents and unmarried sister Rachel to enjoy two blissful
months of picnics, games, and excursions to the coast. But despite
the idyllic setting, nothing can be done to soothe the siblings'
heartache: Hugh is haunted by the ravages of the Great War, Edward
is torn between his wife and his latest infidelity, and Rupert is
in turmoil over his inability to please his demanding wife.
Meanwhile, Rachel risks losing her only chance at happiness because
of her unflinching loyalty to the family. With cover artwork
exclusively designed by artist Luke Edward Hall, this is an edition
to treasure. Continue the dazzling historical series with Marking
Time, Marking Time and Confusion. 'Charming, poignant and quite
irresistible . . . to be cherished and shared' - Times
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The Second World War has finally ended and so begins a new era of
freedom and opportunity for the Cazalet family. Elizabeth Jane
Howard's magnificent Cazalet Chronicles continues with Casting Off,
the fourth novel in the saga. The Cazalet cousins are now in their
twenties, trying to piece together their lives in the aftermath of
the war. Louise is faced with her father's new mistress and her
mother's grief at his betrayal, while suffering in a loveless
marriage of her own. Clary is struggling to understand why her
beloved father chose to stay in France long after it was safe to
return to Britain, and both she and Polly are madly in love with
much older men. Polly, Clary and Louise must face the truth about
the adult world, while their fathers - Rupert, Hugh and Edward -
must make choices that will decide their own, and the family's,
future. With cover artwork exclusively designed by artist Luke
Edward Hall, this is the heartbreaking and heartwarming fourth
instalment of Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling series. It is
followed by All Change, the fifth and final book in the series.
'Charming, poignant and quite irresistible . . . to be cherished
and shared' - The Times
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Beautifully and poignantly told, Marking Time is the second novel
in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling Cazalet Chronicles. Home
Place, Sussex, 1939. As the shadows of the Second World War roll
in, banishing the sunlit days of childish games and trips to the
coast, a new generation of Cazalets take up the family's story.
Louise, who dreams of becoming a great actress, finds herself
facing the harsh reality that her parents have their own lives with
secrets, passions and yearnings. Clary, an aspiring writer, learns
that her beloved father is now missing somewhere on the shores of
France. And sensitive, imaginative Polly feels stuck - stuck
without a vocation, stuck without information about her mother's
illness, stuck without anything except her nightmares about the
war. With cover artwork exclusively designed by artist Luke Edward
Hall, this is the second volume of the extraordinary Cazalet
Chronicles and a perfect addition to your collection. Marking Time
is followed by Confusion, the third book in the series. 'Charming,
poignant and quite irresistible . . . to be cherished and shared' -
Times
With an introduction by Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall.
Originally published in 1956, The Long View is Elizabeth Jane
Howard's uncannily authentic portrait of one marriage and one
woman. Observant and heartbreaking, written with exhilarating wit,
it is a gut-wrenching account of the birth and death of a
relationship - as extraordinary as it is timeless. One of his
secret pleasures was the loading of social dice against himself. He
did not seem for one moment to consider the efforts made by kind or
sensitive people to even things up: or if such notions ever
occurred to him, he would have observed them with detached
amusement, and reloaded more dice. In 1950s London, Antonia Fleming
faces the prospect of a life lived alone. Her children are now
adults; her husband Conrad, a domineering and emotionally complex
man, is a stranger. As Antonia looks towards her future, the novel
steadily moves backwards in time, tracing Antonia's relationship
with Conrad to its beginning in the 1920s, through years of mistake
and motherhood, dreams and war.
Elizabeth Jane Howard, acclaimed author of the Cazalet Chronicles, once said that she would certainly have been a gardener had she not become a writer first. In Green Shades: An Anthology of Plants, Gardens and Gardeners, she brings together a diverse and fascinating selection of garden writing that spans the centuries, the seasons and the species.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics with ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.
The contents are delightfully eclectic and wide-ranging, practical as well as lyrical – she pays homage to the great English landscape artists of the eighteenth century and to the great women gardeners such as Vita Sackville-West. There’s advice from Pliny on how walnuts can be used to dye hair and Joseph Addison encourages blackbirds to gorge on his cherry trees. Linking the numerous extracts is Elizabeth Jane Howard’s perceptive and highly personal commentary, which skilfully leads the reader from one subject to the next.
From the lauded, bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles,
Something in Disguise paints a candid picture of a family in
crisis, from the ever witty Elizabeth Jane Howard. May's second
marriage to Colonel Herbert Brown-Lacy is turning out to be a
terrible mistake. Her son, Oliver, leaves home only to drift from
one affair to another; his sister Elizabeth follows him, yearning
for some kind of secure relationship. While even Alice, Herbert's
meek daughter, is driven into marriage to escape her father's
sinister behaviour . . . At once a candid depiction of a post-war
family on the cusp of change and a touching love story, Something
in Disguise embodies the startling truth, wit and daring that
Elizabeth Jane Howard is renowned for.
The composer Arthur Somervell was also an Inspector of Schools with
special responsibility for the teaching of music. His collected
writings set forth his philosophy of music education and cast light
on musical life between the 1890s and his death in 1937. Sir Arthur
Somervell (1863-1937), composer and educationist, influenced the
musical and educational life of England over four decades.
Remembered today principally as an accomplished composer of songs
and choral works, he also worked for twenty-eight years as one of
His Majesty's Inspectors of Schools (HMI), with special
responsibility for the teaching of music. Towards the end of his
life Somervell gathered together a number of his articles, in
whichhe expounds a passionate philosophy of music education, makes
candid remarks about musical life and musical education in England,
and provides insights into the sometimes bitter debate with Cecil
Sharp about folk song. These collected writings have now been
prepared for publication by Gordon Cox, together with some
unpublished speeches and letters, enabling musicologists and music
educators to re-evaluate the significance of Somervell's
contribution to the musical and educational life of his time.
GORDON COX is senior lecturer in education at the University of
Reading.
All the longing, excitement and poignant comedy of adolescence are
captured in Elizabeth Jane Howard's first novel The Beautiful
Visit, about a young girl growing up in the years around the First
World War. Life had been distinctly lacking in possibilities -
until The Visit. But, ever afterwards, just remembering the smell
of the Lancings' house would enrapture her, taking her back to that
very first day when Lucy and Gerald had picked her up from the
station . . . Beginning and ending with a visit to the same family,
it is a novel full of love, loss, and the ever-lasting effect of
war.
From the bestselling author of The Cazalet Chronicles, The Sea
Change is a witty yet heart-rending story of a marriage in crisis.
Emmanuel is a famous playwright. Lillian is his sickly and
embittered wife. They have never fully buried the memory of their
dead daughter, Sarah. Rich but discontented, they flit from capital
to capital in the company of their hero-worshipping young manager.
Then Alberta, straight from an English vicarage and the pages of
Jane Austen, is appointed as Emmanuel's secretary. This prim and
utterly delightful figure helps the family in ways they didn't know
they needed. One by one the leopards change their spots . . .
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The Cazalet Chronicles continues with the third in the series,
Confusion, set in the height of the Second World War and where
chaos has become a way of life for the Cazalet family. It's 1942
and the dark days of war seem never-ending. Scattered across the
still-peaceful Sussex countryside and air-raid-threatened London,
the divided Cazalets begin to find the battle for survival echoing
the confusion in their own lives. Headstrong, independent Louise
surprises the whole family when she abandons her dreams of being an
actress and instead makes a society marriage. Polly and Clary, now
in their late teens, finally fulfil their ambition of living
together in London. But the reality of the city is not quite what
they imagined, and Polly is struggling to come to terms with the
death of her mother and manage her grieving father. Clary,
meanwhile, is painfully aware that what she lacks in beauty she
makes up for in intelligence, and is the only member of the family
who believes that her father might not be dead. With cover artwork
exclusively designed by artist Luke Edward Hall, this is the
heartbreaking and heartwarming third instalment of Elizabeth Jane
Howard's bestselling series. It is followed by the fourth book,
Casting Off. 'Charming, poignant and quite irresistible . . . to be
cherished and shared' - The Times
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All Change is the fifth and final volume in Elizabeth Jane Howard's
bestselling The Cazalet Chronicles, where the old world begins to
fade from view and a new dawn emerges. It is the 1950s and as the
Duchy, the Cazalets' beloved matriarch, dies, she takes with her
the last remnants of a disappearing world - houses with servants,
class, and tradition - in which the Cazalets have thrived. Louise,
now divorced, becomes entangled in a painful affair, while Polly
and Clary must balance marriage and motherhood with their own ideas
and ambitions. Hugh and Edward, now in their sixties, are feeling
ill-equipped for this modern world, while Villy, long abandoned by
her husband, must at last learn to live independently. But it is
Rachel, who has always lived for others, who will face her greatest
challenges yet. As the Cazalets descend on Home Place for
Christmas, only one thing is certain: nothing will ever be the same
again. With cover artwork exclusively designed by artist Luke
Edward Hall, this is the heartbreaking and heartwarming final
instalment of Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling series. 'She is
one of those novelists who shows, through her work, what the novel
is for . . . She helps us to do the necessary thing - open our eyes
and our hearts' - Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall
From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles comes
Elizabeth Jane Howard's Love All. The late 1960s. For Persephone
Plover, the daughter of distant and neglectful parents, the
innocent, isolated days of childhood are long past. Now she must
deal with the emotions of an adult world . . . Meanwhile in Melton,
in the West Country, Jack Curtis - a self-made millionaire - has
employed Persephone's aunt, a garden designer in her sixties, to
deal with the terraces and glasshouses of the once beautiful local
manor house he has acquired at vast expense. He also has plans to
start an arts festival, as a means to avoid the loneliness of the
recently divorced. Also in Melton are the Musgrove siblings, Thomas
and Mary, whose parents originally owned and lived in Melton House.
They are still trying to cope with emotional consequences of the
tragic death of Thomas's wife, Celia . . . as is Francis, Celia's
brother, who has come to live with them and thereby, perhaps, to
find his way through life.
From the lauded, bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, in
Odd Girl Out, Elizabeth Jane Howard reveals with devastating
accuracy a marriage put in a most destructive situation. Anna and
Edmund Cornhill have a happy marriage and a lovely home. They are
content, complete, absorbed in their private idyll. Arabella, who
comes to stay one lazy summer, is rich, rootless and amoral - and,
as they find out, beautiful and loving. With her elegant prose the
author traces the web of love and desire that entangles these
three; but it is Arabella who finally loses out.
Moving backward in time from the '50s to the '20s, "The Long View"
presents a revealing portrait of a marriage -- that of Antonia and
Conrad Fleming. Told through Antonia's eyes, it is a gut-wrenching
and extraordinary look at marriage -- both from the outside in and
from present to pass.
From the lauded, bestselling author of The Cazalet Chronicles,
After Julius is Elizabeth Jane Howard's funny yet touching story of
a family brought together yet falling apart. 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 and afraid of men. Cressida, her sister, a
war widow, blindly searching for love in her affairs with married
men. Esme, Julius's widow, still attractive at fifty-eight, but
aimlessly lost in the routine of her perfect home. Felix, Esme's
old lover, who left her when Julius died and who is still plagued
by guilt for his action. And Dan, an outsider. Throughout a
disastrous - and revelatory - weekend in Sussex, the influence of
the dead Julius slowly emerges . . .
"May 7th--There were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy
out in my frost-bound garden in spite of my years and children. But
I did it behind a bush, having a due regard for the decencies..."
In this novel, Elizabeth's uniquely witty pen records each season
in her beloved garden, where she escapes from the stifling routine
of the indoors--servants, meals, domestic routine, and the presence
of her overbearing husband.
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Anne and Edmund Cornhill lead idyllic existence all just outside of
London -- until they open their hearts to Arabella, the "lost
little rich girl" whose self-indulgent mother -- once married to
Edmund's father -- wants a holiday from her burdensome
twenty-two-year-old daughter. But what begins as a propitious
arrangement spirals into a bewildering tangle of love, loneliness,
and longing.
In 1937, the coming war is only a distant cloud on Britain's
horizon. As the Cazalet households prepare for their summer
pilgrimage to the family estate in Sussex, readers meet Edward, in
love with but by no means faithful to his wife Villy; Hugh, wounded
in the Great War; Rupert, who worships his lovely child-bride Zoe;
and Rachel, the spinster sister.
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