Septembre 1939. La Pologne est envahie et la famille Cazalet apprend l'entrée en guerre de l'Angleterre. À Home Place, la routine est régulièrement bousculée par les raids allemands. Louise rêve toujours de jouer Hamlet mais doit d'abord passer par une école de cuisine. Au grand dam de sa famille, e...
Juillet 1937. À Home Place, au coeur du Sussex, jardiniers, femmes de chambre et cuisinière sont sur le pont. La Duche orchestre le ballet des domestiques avant l'arrivée de ses trois fils, Hugh, Edward et Rupert Cazalet, en chemin depuis Londres avec épouses, enfants et gouvernantes. Où dormira Cla...
À soixante et un ans, Emmanuel Joyce est un dramaturge à succès. Accompagné de sa femme Lillian et de son manager dévoué Jimmy Sullivan, qui partage leur vie nomade, il s'apprête à quitter Londres le temps de repérer une comédienne pour la production de sa dernière pièce à Broadway. Alors qu'aucune ...
La paix est enfin signée, Rupert est de retour après cinq ans d'absence et la famille décide de quitter Home Place pour retourner vivre à Londres. Mais l'Angleterre est ébranlée, tout comme les certitudes et les moeurs des Cazalet. La mort du Brig et le divorce d'Edward et de Villy apportent leur lo...
Mars 1942. La guerre suit son cours. Sybil vient de succomber au cancer qui la rongeait. Rupert n'a plus donné signe de vie. Le quotidien à Home Place est rythmé par le deuil, les restrictions de nourriture et de chauffage, l'attente de nouvelles à la radio. Polly et Clary ont dix-sept ans et s'inst...
From the bestselling author of The Cazelet 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 . . .Meanw...
From the much-loved author of the Cazalet Chronicles comes Elizabeth Jane Howard's first children's book, The Amazing Adventures of Freddie Whitemouse, following the magical journey of a mouse who wishes to be anything but himself.The trouble was that Freddie really did not like being a mouse. 'It's...
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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 . . . All the longing, excitement and po...
A hairdresser in the West End, Gavin is sensitive, shy and, at 31, a virgin. One night, he is at a penthouse party and, caught between Joan and Minerva, he's suddenly developing rapidly. Over the next fortnight, Gavin begins, at last, to "get it right". ...
May's second marriage to Colonel Herbert Brown-Lacy is turning out to be a terrible mistake. Her children leave home to escape the Colonel, and his behaviour is beginning to become more and more sinister. ...
Home Place, Sussex, 1939. The English family at war... The sunlit days of childish games and familyn meals are over, as the shadows of war roll in to cloud the lives of one English family. At Home Place, the windows are blacked out and food is becoming scarce as a new generation of Cazalets take...
Home Place, Sussex, 1937. The English family at home... For two unforgettable summers they gathered together, safe from the advancing storm clouds of war. In the heart of the Sussex countryside these were still sunlit days of childish games, lavish family meals and picnics on the beach. Three ge...
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Born in London in 1923, Elizabeth Jane Howard was privately educated at home, moving on to short-lived careers as an actress and model, before writing her first acclaimed novel, The Beautiful Visit, in 1950. She has written twelve highly regarded novels, most recently Falling . Her Cazalet Chronicle...