As featured on BBC Radio 4 Open BookBeautifully and poignantly told,Marking Time is the second novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling family saga The Cazalet Chronicles.'She helps us to do the necessary thing - open our eyes and our hearts'- Hilary Mantel,author of Wolf HallHome 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.'Charming,poignant and quite irresistible...to be cherished and shared'- The TimesWith 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.
Publisher: Pan MacmillanISBN: 9781529049435Number of pages: 624Weight: 402 gDimensions: 197 x 132 x 38 mm
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If I were sent to a desert island with one book this would be my choiceCharming,poignant and quite irresistible...to be cherished and shared'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 heartsThe Cazalets have earned an honoured place among the great saga families...rendered thrillingly three-dimensional by a master craftsmanSuperb...hypnotic...very funnyEvocative and gracefully writtenA family saga of the best kind...a mustA dazzling historical reconstructionThis chronicle will be read,like Trollope,as a classic about life in England in our centuryGloriously addictive...Family loyalty,betrayals,triumphs,tragedy,births and deaths are all blissfully here,and you become emotionally absorbed in the fate of each character
Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Jane Austen of her time,Elizabeth Jane Howard wrote some of the most intimate,acute and penetrating novels of the Twentieth-Century including the book considered to be her masterpiece,The Long View,but she is best-known for herCazaletnovels,tracing a family from the 1930's through wartime and beyond.
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