Elizabeth Jane Howard

Juillet 1937. A Home Place, au cœur 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...

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...

Told with exceptional grace and read beatifully by Indira Varma, The Light Years is a modern classic of twentieth-century English life and is the first novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard’s extraordinary, bestselling family saga, The Cazalet Chronicles. Includes a new introduction, written and read...

Beautifully read by Indira Varma and poignantly told, Marking Time is the second novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard’s bestselling family saga The Cazalet Chronicles, set during the onset of World War II. Includes a new introduction, written and read by Kate Mosse. 'Compelling, moving...

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 mœurs des Cazalet. La mort du Brig et le divorce d’Edward et de Villy...

Septembre 1939. La Pologne est envahie et la famille Cazalet apprend l’entrée en guerre de l’Angleterre. A 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...

Neuf années ont passé depuis le mariage de Polly, l'union de Clary et d'Archie et le divorce de Louise. Une nouvelle génération d'enfants a vu le jour, et quand la Duche s'éteint en juin 1956, elle emporte avec elle les derniers vestiges d'un monde révolu. Hugh et Edward, tous deux...

Set in the height of the Second World War, The Cazalet Chronicles continues with the third in the series, Confusion, where chaos has become a way of life for the Cazalet family. Read by Indira Varma (Game of Thrones, Luther and Oedipus at The Old Vic) Includes a new introduction, written and...

The Second World War has finally ended and so begins a new era of freedom and opportunity for the Cazalet family in Casting Off, the fourth novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's magnificent Cazalet Chronicles. Read by Indira Varma (Game of Thrones, Luther and Oedipus at The Old Vic). Includes a new...

As the old world begins to fade from view and a new dawn emerges, All Change is the fifth volume in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling The Cazalet Chronicles. Read by Indira Varma (Game of Thrones, Luther and Oedipus at The Old Vic). Includes a new introduction, written and read by Gill Hornby...

Painting a candid picture of a family in crisis, Something in Disguise is a haunting, heartfelt novel from the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard. May's second marriage to Colonel Herbert Brown-Lacy is turning out to be a terrible mistake. Her son, Oliver, leaves...

As the First World War takes hold, a young girl comes of age in a troubled London. Capturing the longing, excitement and poignant comedy of adolescence, The Beautiful Visit is the debut novel from the beloved author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard. 'She helps us to do the...

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...

I giorni della spensieratezza e dei giochi sono ormai passati. È il settembre del 1939 e l'ombra della guerra si allunga cupa sulla vita dei Cazalet. In questo clima...

Primavera de 1942, el mayor conflicto armado de la historia de la humanidad se adentra en su cuarto año. Las incursiones aéreas y el racionamiento son moneda corriente, el caos se ha convertido en una forma de vida. Sin embargo, algo empieza a moverse entre los jóvenes Cazalet....

E alla fine sono arrivati gli anni Cinquanta. Il capitolo conclusivo della saga si apre con la dipartita della Duchessa. Con lei scompaiono...

Luglio 1945. La guerra è finita e tutto cambia. Con l'affacciarsi di una nuova epoca, anche la vita dei Cazalet si incammina su strade...

Este quinto volumen de la serie cierra magistralmente la que, además de una de las sagas familiares más queridas por los lectores, es sin duda el último gran clásico de las letras inglesas del pasado siglo....

Il giovane Gavin è un timido e sensibile parrucchiere di modesta estrazione nella Londra di fine anni Settanta. Il suo mestiere lo rende...

Estamos en 1945, la guerra ha terminado. El momento tan anhe¬lado por los Cazalet ha llegado finalmente, pero una Inglaterra atormentada por las privaciones y la desintegración del Imperio ensombrece la emoción por la noticia....