Marking Time
Published on 7. November 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
640 pages
978-0-330-33250-7 (ISBN)
Description
Marking Time is the second novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling Cazalet Chronicles.
Home Place, Sussex, 1939. The English family at war . . .
The sunlit days of childish games and familyn 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.
Read the next books in the series, Confusion, Casting Off and All Change, or start from the beginning with The Light Years.
Home Place, Sussex, 1939. The English family at war . . .
The sunlit days of childish games and familyn 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.
Read the next books in the series, Confusion, Casting Off and All Change, or start from the beginning with The Light Years.
Reviews / Votes
A family saga of the best kind . . . a must. * Tatler * 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 *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: 199 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 43 mm
Weight
442 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-330-33250-7 (9780330332507)
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02/2011
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Person
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.