Elizabeth Jane Howard

La última gran saga familiar de la literatura inglesa del siglo XX.«La cima de la sofisticación británica. No pasa nada en la vieja y señorial casa de campo de los Cazalet y resulta que pasa todo».

LA MEJOR NOVELA DE LA AUTORA DE LAS CRÓNICAS DE LOS CAZALET.«Una construcción inmaculada, una observación impecable y una convincente e inexorable técnica narrativa». HILARY MANTEL«Cuando se publicó

«Las novelas de Elizabeth Jane Howard son panorámicas, expansivas, intrigantes como historia social y generosas en su narración, los frutos de una escritora que conocía su objetivo y tenía la resiste

Una de las grandes novelas de la autora de las crónicas de los Cazalet.1950, Londres. Antonia y Conrad Fleming esperan a los invitados a la cena de compromiso de su hijo Julian. Con sus magníficas vistas sobre la ciudad, todo esta listo en su hermosa e impecable mansion de Hampstead Hill para recibir a lo mas destacado de la alta sociedad londinense. Sin embargo, la voz y la mirada de Antonia parecen veladas por el desencanto y la sensacion, casi la certeza, de que, despues de todo, las cosas podrian haber sido de otra manera Asi se abre el repaso por la historia de los veinte años del matrimonio Fleming, un viaje hacia atras, tan delicado como implacable, por las alegrias y los sinsabores de la vida conyugal, desde el incierto presente hasta su luminoso primer encuentro.Una larga mirada es tanto una prometedora historia de amor como su contrario, el sincero y descarnado proceso de descomposicion de una pareja expuesta al desgaste de los años. Sin duda, una de las grandes novelas de esa figura fundamental en la literatura inglesa del siglo XX que fue Elizabeth Jane Howard.No hay ninguna otra autora que yo haya recomendado mas a menudo. Leanla, ese es mi consejo, y en particular acerquense a esos pequeños milagros que son Despues de Julius y Una larga mirada.Hilary MantelNo se puede escribir sobre Elizabeth Jane Howard sin mencionar su mirada, su extraordinario poder de descripcion, su dominio para transmitir casi sensorialmente paisajes, animales, objetos o casas; lo mucho que ha visto y la exquisita magia y precision con que lo evoca. Sybille BedfordProyecto financiado por la Direccion General del Libro y Fomento de la Lectura, Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte. Proyecto financiado por la Union Europea-Next Generation EU

The Light Years is the first novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling Cazalet Chronicles. Home Place, Sussex, 1937. The English family at home . . . For two unforgettable summers they gathered together, safe from the advancing storm clouds of the Second World 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 generations of the Cazalet family. Their relatives, their children and their servants - and the fascinating triangle of their affairs . . . Read the next books in the series, Marking Time, Confusion, Casting Off and All Change

A novel of love and its fragility, and the strength of family love, from one of Britains most beloved authors.A beautiful, very moving, melancholic and elegiac novel set in the late 1960s in Melton, a small town in the West Country. The story revolves around a disparate group of people who come together there to establish an arts festival. There is Jack Curtis a self-made millionaire who has bought and refurbished the local stately home, Florence Plover, a garden designer in her sixties whom he has employed and her Anglo-Greek niece, Persephone. There are the Musgrove siblings, Thomas and Mary, whose family originally owned Melton Hall, who run a failing garden nursery nearby and there is Francis Brock, whose sister Celia, Thomass wife, was tragically killed in a car crash some years previously. This is the story of their intertwining relationships and how they come to love, and not to love each other in different ways and why - a perfect book to curl up and read by the fireside on an autumn afternoon and as satisfying a read as Brief Encounter is a film.

Londres, 1950. Antonia et Conrad Fleming donnent un dîner pour les fiançailles de leur fils Julian, chez eux, dans le quartier chic de Campden Hill Square. Derrière les apparences policées d'une soir

Adjugé, vendu ! " C'est en ces termes qu'Alice, la fille du colonel Herbert Browne-Lacey, songe à son avenir le jour où Leslie Mount lui passe la bague au doigt. Si cet engagement précipité a le méri

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 nou

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