The first book in the landmark Cazalet Chronicles, previously a BBC radio and TV series. With the onset of war, The Light Years reveals a privileged family facing uncertain times.
Elizabeth Jane Howard is the author of fourteen highly acclaimed novels, most recently Love All. The Cazalet Chronicles - The Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion and Casting Off - have become established as modern classics and were adapted for a major BBC television series. In 2002 Macmillan published her autobiography, Slipstream. In that same year she was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.
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 Wolf Hall*
The Cazalets have earned an honoured place among the great saga
families . . . rendered thrillingly three-dimensional by a master
craftsman.
*Sunday Telegraph*
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.
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 Wolf
Hall
The Cazalets have earned an honoured place among the great saga
families . . . rendered thrillingly three-dimensional by a master
craftsman. * Sunday Telegraph *
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