Elizabeth Jane Howard

In the tradition of Evelyn Waugh and E. M. Forster, the first book in this critically acclaimed multigenerational saga about an upper-middle-class family in Britain before, during, and after World War II recreates a vanished world. As war clouds gather on the distant horizon, Hugh, Edward, and Rupert Cazalet, along with their wives, children, and loyal servants, prepare to leave London for their annual pilgrimage to the family's Sussex estate. There,...

For fans of Downton Abbey, the second volume of the critically acclaimed Cazalet saga takes readers into the lives of an extended British family and their devoted retinue It is 1939, and Hitler has just invaded Poland. The exigencies of wartime will force the Cazalets to make difficult choices as the older children are evacuated from London and settled in Home Place, their longtime Sussex summer estate. Narrated primarily through the voices of three...

The continuing story of the Cazalets, a well-to-do English family. The present volume, the third in the series, centers on cousins Polly and Clary as they leave their country home to begin adult life in World War II London.

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...

An unforgettable novel about love, family, life, and death in 1960s England   Col. Herbert Brown-Lacy's daughter, Alice, is getting married-more to escape her father than anything else. Though in truth Alice's stepmother May has been nicer than her previous stepmother-and even her own mother. But May's grown children, Oliver and Elizabeth, are certain their mother made a terrible mistake in her marriage to the dull-as-dishwater Herbert. May clearly...

A young Englishwoman-akin to a Jane Austen heroine-transforms the lives of a couple who has suffered tragic loss in this story of love and redemption   Fourteen years after her death, the ghost of their baby daughter, Sarah, haunts world-famous playwright Emmanuel Joyce and his fragile, embittered wife, Lillian. They have each learned to cope in their own way: Emmanuel seduces his secretaries and Lillian keeps photos of her lost child on the dressing...

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,...