Emmanuel is a famous playwright and Lilian is his sickly and embittered wife, unable to forget the death of her only child. Rich but discontented, they travel from city to city in the company of their hero-worshipping manager. Then Alberta is appointed as Emmanuel's secretary.

The Sea Change

Literature & Fiction

Elizabeth-Jane-Howard

Contemporary

Middlesex, Penguin Books, 1962

Mary's second marriage to Colonel Herbert Brown-Lacey 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.

Something In Disguise

Penguin

Odd Girl Out

On the eve of an unusual voyage, a young woman reviews her life. Her story begins with a 'beautiful visit' to friends in the country which serves as an awakening experience. What follows is an account of her struggle to retain the mood of her visit.

The Beautiful Visit

Penguin??Books

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, Thomas's 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.

Love All

Pan/Macmillan

As this fifth volume of The Cazalet Chronicles opens, the Cazalets' beloved matriarch is dying, and with her will go the last remnants of the old life of servants, class and tradition. The next generation of Cazalets is set to take over Home Place. The author provides a brief background for readers new to the Chronicles.

All Change (Cazalet Chronicles)

Literary

Mantle

THE LONG VIEW

Hamish Hamilton

Penguin Books, Ltd.

As England braces itself for war, Clary Cazalet withdraws into her books and journals, sweet-tempered Polly Cazalet agonizes over a secret illness in the family, and Louise Cazalet returns to boarding school.

Marking Time

Pan.

The second volume in the Cazalet Chronicles, recently adapted for BBC Radio 4
Home Place, Sussex, 1939. The English family at war...
The sunlit days of childish games and family 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 takes up the story. Louise dreams of being a great actress, Clary is an aspiring writer, while Polly, is burdened with knowledge and the need to share it.
Marking Timeis the second volume in The Cazalet Chronicle. The next novel in the series isConfusion.

Pan Books

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The Sea Change

Something In Disguise

Odd Girl Out

The Beautiful Visit

Love All

All Change (Cazalet Chronicles)

THE LONG VIEW

The Sea Change

Marking Time

Marking Time