Marking Time
Audio
CD-Audio
978-0-230-70026-0 (ISBN)
Description
The sunlit days of the childish games and family meals are over, as shadows of war roll in to cloud the lives of one English family. At home Place, the windows are balcked out and food is becoming scarce.
And a new generation of Cazalets takes up the story . . .
'She writes brilliantly and her characters are always totally believable. She makes you laugh, she sometimes shocks, and often makes you cry' - Rosamund Pilcher
'A charming, poignant and quite irresistible novel, to be cherished and shared' The Times
And a new generation of Cazalets takes up the story . . .
'She writes brilliantly and her characters are always totally believable. She makes you laugh, she sometimes shocks, and often makes you cry' - Rosamund Pilcher
'A charming, poignant and quite irresistible novel, to be cherished and shared' The Times
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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
978-0-230-70026-0 (9780230700260)
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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.