The Light Years
Audio
CD-Audio
978-0-230-53258-8 (ISBN)
Description
Three generations of Cazalets spend each summer in their family house - Home Place, Sussex. For two unforgettable summers they are safe from the advancing storm clouds of the Second World War. These are sunlit days of childish games, lavish family meals and picnics on the beach. Elizabeth Jane Howard has produced a gripping chronicle of an English family and the fascinating tangle of their affairs.
'Vivid and compulsively readable' Sunday Telegraph
'A superb novel . . . strangely hypnotic . . . very funny . . . surpasses even the best of what Elizabeth Jane Howard has written' The Spectator
'The creation of a vanished historical world . . . engrossing' Village Voice
'Vivid and compulsively readable' Sunday Telegraph
'A superb novel . . . strangely hypnotic . . . very funny . . . surpasses even the best of what Elizabeth Jane Howard has written' The Spectator
'The creation of a vanished historical world . . . engrossing' Village Voice
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Edition
Unabridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Dimensions
Height: 125 mm
Width: 142 mm
Duration
Dauer: 360 min
ISBN-13
978-0-230-53258-8 (9780230532588)
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Persons
Elizabeth Jane Howard was the author of fifteen highly acclaimed novels. The Cazalet Chronicles - The Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion, Casting Off and All Change - have become established as modern classics and have been adapted for a major BBC television series and for BBC Radio 4. In 2002 Macmillan published Elizabeth Jane Howard's autobiography, Slipstream. In that same year she was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. She died, aged 90, at home in Suffolk on 2 January 2014. Eleanor Bron is highly respected as a stage and screen actress. Her theatre work includes The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi (for the National Theatre), Hamlet and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie . Her film work includes A Little Princess, Little Dorrit and Women in Love.