The Light Years (Cazalet Chronicles #1)

by Elizabeth Jane Howard

Overview

The tangled lives of three generations evoke a vanished world in this, the first volume of the Cazalet Chronicle from historical fiction author Elizabeth Jane Howard.

Three generations of the Cazalet family played out their lives - with their relatives, their children and their servants - anda fascinating triangle of their affairs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780671527938
Publisher:	Atria Books
Publication date:	07/01/1995
Series:	Cazalet Chronicles Series , #1
Edition description:	Original
Pages:	448
Sales rank:	202,382
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Elizabeth Jane Howard CBE FRSL, was a novelist.

Editorial Reviews

With great historical accuracy, this second installment in the Cazalet Chronicle follows The Light Years . (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

In 1937 the three Cazelet brothers gather their respective families and head for the family manse in the heart of Sussex for their annual summer holiday. Howard is expert at creating detailed physical environments for her characters, habitats that often reveal just as much about the Cazelets as their words or actions do. The publisher compares The Light Years to Rosamund Pilcher's recent best seller The Shell Seekers (LJ 1/88), but the characters on the whole lack the passion, warmth, and depth of feeling of Pilcher's. Howard's family saga is well written, however; she has considerable literary talent. A sequel concentrating on the interesting scions of the Cazelet dynasty would be welcome. Recommended.-- Lydia Bur ruel Johnson, Mesa P.L., Ariz.

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