Elizabeth Jane Howard: 41 books

A dead war hero’s lingering influence follows his family from World War II–era London to the 1950s English countryside   At the height of World War II, while her husband, Julius, was away at the front, Esme, the mother of two young children, fell in love for the first time. Her lover, a poet...

The author of the bestselling Cazalet Chronicles brilliantly captures the coming-of-age hopes and yearnings of an adolescent English girl during World War I   The fourth child born to a struggling musician and a mother who’s an incurable romantic, Lavinia lives an unremarkable existence. But a...

An aging con man sets his sights on a twice-burned, sixtyish woman in this suspenseful novel from the author of the bestselling Cazalet Chronicles. Harry Kent is the caretaker of a houseboat on the English canal where he lives, subsisting on a nightly dinner of tinned steak and kidney pudding....

From the much-loved author of the Cazalet Chronicles comes Elizabeth Jane Howard's first children's book, The Amazing Adventures of Freddie Whitemouse, following the magical journey of a mouse who wishes to be anything but himself. The trouble was that Freddie really did not like being a mouse....

...E alla fine sono arrivati gli anni Cinquanta. Il capitolo conclusivo della saga dei Cazalet si apre con una perdita significativa: la Duchessa viene a mancare. Andandosene, porta via con sé gli ultimi frammenti di un mondo che sta scomparendo: quello della servitù domestica, della classe sociale,...

EL ÚLTIMO GRAN CLÁSICO DE LA NOVELA INGLESA DEL SIGLO XX «Los años ligeros es una joya literaria escondida para el lector español, la cima de la sofisticación británica».  Fernando R. Lafuente, ABC «Los inolvidables Cazalet nos dan una lección de belleza y verdad como solo la literatura...

È il 1945 e la guerra è finita. Il momento tanto atteso e sognato dai Cazalet per anni è finalmente arrivato. Eppure, l’eccitazione di fronte alla notizia che le armi sono state deposte è ormai sopita, e l’Inghilterra è ancora paralizzata nella morsa della privazione. Mentre l’impero si...

È il 1942: da quando abbiamo salutato i Cazalet per l’ultima volta è trascorso un anno. I raid aerei e il razionamento del cibo sono sempre all’ordine del giorno, eppure qualcosa comincia a smuoversi: per le giovani Cazalet la lunga attesa è finita e finalmente Louise, Polly e Clary fanno il...

«Con el tiempo sus Crónicas, como las de Trollope, se leerán como clásicos sobre la vida en Inglaterra». SYBILLE BEDFORD Primavera de 1942, el mayor conflicto armado de la historia de la humanidad se adentra en su cuarto año. Las incursiones aéreas y el racionamiento son moneda corriente, el...

TERMINA LA GUERRA, SIGUEN LOS CAZALET LA PORTENTOSA SAGA FAMILIAR QUE CULMINÓ LA NOVELA BRITÁNICA DEL SIGLO XX. «Los inolvidables Cazalet nos dan una lección de belleza y verdad como solo la literatura es capaz de plasmar».  J. M. GUELBENZU, Babelia, El País «La cima de la sofisticación británica....

In ‘Aftellen’, het tweede deel in de Cazalet-serie van Jane Howard, schrijven we 1939, Hitler is net Polen binnengevallen. De vrouwen en kinderen Cazalet worden geëvacueerd naar Home Place. De idyllische tijd van spelletjes en uitgebreide feestmalen is voorbij. De tienermeisjes Louise, Polly...

An unforgettable novel about love, family, life, and death in 1960s England   Col. Herbert Brown-Lacy’s daughter, Alice, is getting married—more to escape her father than anything else. Though in truth Alice’s stepmother May has been nicer than her previous stepmother—and even her own mother....

A London hairdresser’s life begins to change dramatically when he meets two very different women at a party in this delightful social comedy.   Thirty-one-year-old Gavin Lamb is a shy hairdresser in London’s West End. Self-educated, he likes Mozart and can quote Tolstoy, but being something of...

A young Englishwoman—akin to a Jane Austen heroine—transforms the lives of a couple who has suffered tragic loss in this story of love and redemption   Fourteen years after her death, the ghost of their baby daughter, Sarah, haunts world-famous playwright Emmanuel Joyce and his fragile, embittered...