Elizabeth Jane: 131 books

È l’estate del 1937 e la famiglia Cazalet si appresta a riunirsi nella dimora di campagna per trascorrervi le vacanze. È un mondo dalle atmosfere d’altri tempi, quello dei Cazalet, dove tutto avviene secondo rituali precisi e codici che il tempo ha reso immutabili, dove i domestici servono il...

Alsmora: A land of magic, adventure, and myths turned reality. Sixteen-year-old Penelope Bogg is a handmaiden to the Queen of Alsmora, but she is anything but a simple servant. Here are just a few things on her mind: Her mother's mysterious death two years previously; The fact that she...

A quartet of witty, perceptive novels from the international bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles and a “compelling storyteller” (The Guardian).   Best-known for the five novels that comprise her million-selling Cazalet Chronicles, which was made into a BBC television series, British...

The intimate and revealing memoir of the woman behind the bestselling Cazalet Chronicles and a fascinating window into the British literary world.   One of Britain’s most famous and beloved authors, Elizabeth Jane Howard’s life was as rich, varied, and passionate as the characters in her novels....

Written twenty years after the publication of Casting Off, the final volume of the Cazalet Chronicles begins in 1956 when the death of the family matriarch brings the scattered members of the extended clan back together The death of eighty-nine-year-old matriarch Kitty “the Duchy” Cazalet...

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‘Veranderingen’ van Elizabeth Jane Howard is het vijfde en laatste deel van ‘de Cazalets’ serie. Het is halverwege de jaren vijftig. De baronie is overleden, en met haar lijkt een heel tijdperk voorgoed verdwenen. Hoewel de oorlog al tien jaar achter de Cazalets ligt, voelen haar kinderen,...

Een must voor alle liefhebbers van 'Downton Abbey', dat zijn de 'Cazalet-kronieken' van Elizabeth Jane Howard. De nadagen van het victoriaanse Engeland en de eerste onzekere jaren na het einde van de oorlog vormen de achtergrond van deze vijfdelige serie die de periode 1937-1956 omspant. In ‘Bevrijding’,...

Een must voor alle liefhebbers van 'Downton Abbey', dat zijn de 'Cazalet-kronieken' van Elizabeth Jane Howard. De nadagen van het victoriaanse Engeland en de eerste onzekere jaren na het einde van de oorlog vormen de achtergrond van deze vijfdelige serie die de periode 1937-1956 omspant. In ‘Verwarring’,...

De nadagen van het victoriaanse Engeland en de eerste onzekere jaren na het einde van de oorlog vormen de achtergrond van de vijfdelige ‘Cazalet-kronieken’ van Elizabeth Jane Howard, die de periode 1937-1947omspannen. Deel 1, ‘Lichte jaren’, begint eind jaren dertig, in de laatste gouden jaren...

Emmanuel e Lillian Joyce sono una coppia di mezz’età appartenente all’alta borghesia londinese ebraica e cosmopolita. Lui è un drammaturgo di successo, lei, più giovane del marito, è una donna fragile, raffinata e mondana. A mediare tra i due, il manager tuttofare Jimmy Sullivan. I Joyce conducono...

È il settembre del 1939, le calde giornate scandite da scorribande e lauti pasti in famiglia sono finite e l’ombra della guerra è sopraggiunta a addensare nubi sulle vite dei Cazalet. A Home Place, le finestre sono oscurate e il cibo inizia a scarseggiare, in lontananza si sentono gli spari e...

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...