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Home Place, Sussex, 1937. The English family at home ... For two unforgettable summers they gathered together, safe from the advancing storm clouds of war. In the heart of the Sussex countryside these were still sunlit days of childish games, lavish family meals and picnics on the beach. Three generations of the Cazalet family played out their lives - their relatives, their children and their servants - and the fascinating triangle of their affairs ...

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'A superb novel ... strangely hypnotic ... very funny ... surpasses even the best of what Elizabeth Jane Howard has written.' -- The Spectator 'Vivid and compulsively readable.' -- The Sunday Telegraph

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Elizabeth Jane Howard, CBE, was an English novelist. She was an actress and a model before becoming a novelist. In 1951, she won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her first novel, The Beautiful Visit. Six further novels followed, before she embarked on her best known work The Cazalet Chronicles, a four novel family saga set in wartime Britain. The Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion, and Casting Off were serialised by Cinema Verity for BBC television as The Cazalets. She has also written a book of short stories, Mr Wrong, and edited two anthologies. Her last novel in The Cazalet Chronicles series, All Change, was published in November 2013. Jill Balcon was an actress of stage, screen and radio primarily known for her roles in An Ideal Husband (1999), Edward II (1991) and Wittgenstein (1993). She finished top of her class in the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, and first began her career as an announcer for the BBC.

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