Casting Off
Published on 7. November 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
656 pages
978-0-330-34481-4 (ISBN)
Description
Casting Off is the fourth novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling Cazalet Chronicles.
The aftermath of war, and the slow dawning of a new era of freedom and opportunity, shape the destinies of the Cazalets in the fourth volume of this magnificent family saga.
Polly, Clary and Louise, now grown up, are ready to discover the truth about the adult world. While Rupert, Hugh and Edward must make the choices that will decide their own - and the family's - future.
For the Cazalets, and all those close to them, one end is another beginning . . .
Read the next book in the series, All Change, or start from the beginning with The Light Years, Marking Time and Confusion.
The aftermath of war, and the slow dawning of a new era of freedom and opportunity, shape the destinies of the Cazalets in the fourth volume of this magnificent family saga.
Polly, Clary and Louise, now grown up, are ready to discover the truth about the adult world. While Rupert, Hugh and Edward must make the choices that will decide their own - and the family's - future.
For the Cazalets, and all those close to them, one end is another beginning . . .
Read the next book in the series, All Change, or start from the beginning with The Light Years, Marking Time and Confusion.
Reviews / Votes
Charming, poignant and quite irresistible . . . to be cherished and shared * The Times * She is one of those novelists who shows, through her work, what the novel is for . . . She helps us to do the necessary thing - open our eyes and our hearts. -- Hilary Mantel, author of <i>Wolf Hall</i> The Cazalets have earned an honoured place among the great saga families . . . rendered thrillingly three-dimensional by a master craftsman. * Sunday Telegraph * A family saga of the best kind . . . a must. * Tatler * Evocative and gracefully written * Cosmopolitan *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 45 mm
Weight
462 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-330-34481-4 (9780330344814)
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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.