Picador The Sea Change Говард Элизабет Джейн

All the longing, excitement and poignant comedy of adolescence are captured in Elizabeth Jane Howard's first novel The Beautiful Visit, about a young girl growing up in the years around the First World War • Life had been distinctly lacking in possibilities - until The Visit. But, ever afterwards, just remembering the smell of the Lancings' house would enrapture her, taking her back to that very first day when Lucy and Gerald had picked her up from the station • Beginning and ending with a visit to the same family, it is a novel full of love, loss, and the ever-lasting effect of war

Originally published in 1956, The Long View is Elizabeth Jane Howard's uncannily authentic portrait of one marriage and one woman. Observant and heartbreaking, written with exhilarating wit, it is a gut-wrenching account of the birth and death of a relationship - as extraordinary as it is timeless • One of his secret pleasures was the loading of social dice against himself. He did not seem for one moment to consider the efforts made by kind or sensitive people to even things up: or if such notions ever occurred to him, he would have observed them with detached amusement, and reloaded more dice • In 1950s London, Antonia Fleming faces the prospect of a life lived alone. Her children are now adults; her husband Conrad, a domineering and emotionally complex man, is a stranger

From the lauded, bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Something in Disguise paints a candid picture of a family in crisis, from the ever witty Elizabeth Jane Howard • May's second marriage to Colonel Herbert Brown-Lacy is turning out to be a terrible mistake. Her son, Oliver, leaves home only to drift from one affair to another; his sister Elizabeth follows him, yearning for some kind of secure relationship. While even Alice, Herbert's meek daughter, is driven into marriage to escape her father's sinister behaviour • At once a candid depiction of a post-war family on the cusp of change and a touching love story, Something in Disguise embodies the startling truth, wit and daring that Elizabeth Jane Howard is renowned for

Paras is a spirited young racehorse living in a stable in the French countryside. That is until one afternoon when she pushes open the gate of her stall and, travelling through the night, arrives quite by chance in the dazzling streets of Paris • She soon meets a German shorthaired pointer named Frida, two irrepressible ducks and an opinionated crow, and life amongst the animals in the city’s lush green spaces is enjoyable for a time. But everything changes when Paras meets a human boy, Etienne, and discovers a new, otherworldly part of Paris: the secluded, ivy-walled house where the boy and his nearly one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother live quietly and keep to themselves. As the cold weather of Christmas nears, the unlikeliest of friendships blooms between human and animals

The intoxicating story of one woman's dreams of freedom in Victorian England and the man whose obsession threatens to destroy them forever… • 'A sharp, scary, gorgeously evocative tale of love, art and obsession' - Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train • London. 1850. On a crowded street, the dollmaker Iris Whittle meets the artist Louis Frost. Louis is a painter who yearns to have his work displayed in the Royal Academy, and he is desperate for Iris to be his model. Iris agrees, on the condition that he teaches her to paint • Dreaming of freedom, Iris throws herself into a new life of art and love, unaware that she has caught the eye of a second man. Silas Reed is a curiosity collector, enchanted by the strange and beautiful. After seeing Iris at the site of the Great Exhibition he finds he cannot forget her

From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles comes Elizabeth Jane Howard's Love All • The late 1960s. For Persephone Plover, the daughter of distant and neglectful parents, the innocent, isolated days of childhood are long past. Now she must deal with the emotions of an adult world… • Meanwhile in Melton, in the West Country, Jack Curtis - a self-made millionaire - has employed Persephone's aunt, a garden designer in her sixties, to deal with the terraces and glasshouses of the once beautiful local manor house he has acquired at vast expense. He also has plans to start an arts festival, as a means to avoid the loneliness of the recently divorced • Also in Melton are the Musgrove siblings, Thomas and Mary, whose parents originally owned and lived in Melton House

From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles comes Elizabeth Jane Howard's Falling • Harry Kent is a sensitive man in late middle age, a reader and a thinker, without means perhaps but not without charm • Daisy has recovered from her unhappy past by learning to be self-sufficient, and viewing trust as a weakness. But there is still a part of her that yearns to be cared for once more • It is this part that Henry sees, and with dedicated and calculated patience he works at her defences. So despite all attempts to resist his attentions, Daisy finds herself falling under Henry's spell…

Роман "Исход" Элизабет Джейн Говард - последняя книга цикла «Хроника семьи Казалет» • Последствия войны и постепенное наступление новой эры, эры свободы и возможностей, правят судьбами Казалетов в четвертой книге саги. Подросшие Полли, Клэри и Луиза, каждая по-своему, узнают правду о мире взрослых. Тем временем Руперт, Хью и Эдвард должны сделать важные шаги, которые определят не только их будущее, но и будущее всей семьи. Для Казалетов и всех, кто с ними близок, конец войны сулит новое начало • Книга на английском языке • The Second World War has finally ended and so begins a new era of freedom and opportunity for the Cazalet family. Elizabeth Jane Howard's magnificent Cazalet Chronicles continues with Casting Off, the fourth novel in the saga

Красивое и пронзительное "Застывшее время" - второй роман в бестселлере Элизабет Джейн Ховард "Хроники Казалета" • Летом 1939 года Британия вступила во Вторую мировою войну, и девять представителей молодого поколения семейства Казлетов вобрались под крышей летнего имения в Суссексе, у их бабушки и дедушки. Каждый из персонажей разыграет перед читателями личную драму на фоне вездесущей войны, особенно три старшие девочки, от имени которых и пойдет большая часть повествования • Луизе исполнилось шестнадцать лет, и она окунается в мир лондонских вечеринок. 14 –летняя Полли переживает подростковые трудности на фоне ужасов войны. Отец Клэри числится пропавшим без вести после Дюнкерка, но она верит, что он жив • Книга на английском языке • Beautifully and poignantly told, Marking Time is the second novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling Cazalet Chronicles

Цикл «Хроника семьи Казалет» принес Элизабет Джейн Говард мировую известность. События пяти книг охватывают период с 1914 по 1950-е годы. Это история большой английской семьи, которую вместе со всей Европой захлестывает хаос двух мировых войн и их последствия. "Смятение" - третья книга цикла • 1942 год. Война набирает обороты, а хаос вокруг становится привычным. Казалеты разделены: кто-то в Лондоне под постоянной угрозой воздушных атак, кто-то в Суссексе, родовом поместье, где переживает трудное время. Каждый ищет силы для выживания и пытается разобраться в собственной жизни - даже во время войны люди влюбляются, разочаровываются и ищут себя. Смятение охватывает каждого из Казалетов. В такое неспокойное время поддержка семьи необходима особенно остро

A tsunami and a war, a mother and a daughter, a husband and a wife: Joanna Rossiter's haunting novel explores how these relationships are welded and dissolved by extraordinary circumstances beyond human control. Beautifully observed and moving, A Lost Place is a novel for fans of Sadie Jones' The Outcast, Amanda Hodgkinson's 22 Britannia Road and Natasha Solomons' The Novel in the Viola. Yesterday was Alice's wedding day. She is thousands of miles away from the home she is so desperate to leave, on the southernmost tip of India, when she wakes in the morning to see a wave on the horizon, taller than the height of her guest house on Kanyakumari beach. Her husband is nowhere to be seen. On the other side of the world, unhappily estranged from her daughter, is Alice's mother, Violet