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Elizabeth Jane Howard

    26. březen 1923 – 2. leden 2014

    Elizabeth Jane Howardová byla anglická romanopiskyně, jejíž díla často zkoumají složitost rodinných vztahů a společenské nuance. Než se stala spisovatelkou, působila jako herečka a modelka. Její literární projev se vyznačuje pronikavým pozorováním lidské povahy a jemným vykreslením psychologie postav. Její nejznámější tvorba se ponořila do života rodiny během válečné Británie, kde s citem zachytila plynoucí čas a dopad historických událostí na soukromé životy.

    Elizabeth Jane Howard
    Getting It Right
    Marking time
    Casting Off
    The Cazalet Chronicle 2. Marking Time
    Confusion
    The Cazalet Chronicle 3. Confusion
    • It's 1942 and the dark days of war seem never-ending. Scattered across the still-peaceful Sussex countryside and air-raid-threatened London, the divided Cazalets begin to find the battle for survival echoing the confusion in their own lives. Headstrong, independent Louise surprises the whole family when she abandons her dreams of being an actress and instead makes a society marriage. Polly and Clary, now in their late teens, finally fulfil their ambition of living together in London, but the reality of the city is not quite what they imagined. Polly is struggling to come to terms with the death of her mother and manage her grieving father. Clary, meanwhile, is painfully aware that what she lacks in beauty she makes up for in intelligence, and is the only member of the family who believes that her fther might not be dead..

      The Cazalet Chronicle 3. Confusion
    • Confusion

      • 496 stránek
      • 18 hodin čtení
      4,4(123)Ohodnotit

      The third book in the landmark Cazalet Chronicles, previously a BBC radio and TV series. Set in wartime Britain, Confusion follows the relationships of the Cazalet family and their lives, loves, and losses.

      Confusion
    • The second book in the landmark Cazalet Chronicles, previously a BBC radio and TV series. As war breaks out in Britain, Marking Time follows a family wondering if their lives will ever return to normal.

      The Cazalet Chronicle 2. Marking Time
    • Casting Off

      • 640 stránek
      • 23 hodin čtení
      4,3(3274)Ohodnotit

      The final volume in the Cazalet Chronicle quartet. Opening in July 1945, this novel progresses through to 1947, following Rupert's life as he struggles with normality and the difficulty of finding his position back in the family. Polly, Clary and Louise also feature in the book.

      Casting Off
    • Marking time

      • 464 stránek
      • 17 hodin čtení
      4,2(22)Ohodnotit

      At Home Place, the windows are blacked out and food is becoming scarce as a new generation of Cazalets takes up the story. Louise dreams of being a great actress, Clary is an aspiring writer, while Polly, is burdened with knowledge and the need to share it. This is the sequel to The Light Years .

      Marking time
    • From the lauded, bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Getting It Right delves deep in to the life of a shy thirty-one-year-old man finally coming of age.

      Getting It Right
    • At Home Place, the windows are blacked out and food is becoming scarce as a new generation of Cazalets takes up the story. Louise dreams of being a great actress, Clary is an aspiring writer, while Polly, is burdened with knowledge and the need to share it. This is the sequel to The Light Years .

      Marking time. Volume 2 The Cazalet chronicle
    • Green Shades

      • 192 stránek
      • 7 hodin čtení
      3,5(2)Ohodnotit

      A delightful companion for all those with a love of gardens and of the very best garden writing.

      Green Shades
    • Set in the late 1960s in Melton, a small town in the West Country, this novel tells a story that revolves around a disparate group of people who come together there to establish an arts festival. It is about their intertwining relationships and how they come to love, and not to love each other in different ways and why.

      Love All
    • The Light Years

      • 208 stránek
      • 8 hodin čtení
      4,1(310)Ohodnotit

      With an introduction by Joanna Lumley The Light Years is the first novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling five-part series, 'The Cazalet Chronicles'.Home Place, Sussex, 1937.For two unforgettable summers the Cazalets gathered together, safe from the advancing storm clouds of the Second World War. In the heart of the Sussex countryside these were still sunlit days of childish games, lavish family meals and picnics on the beach.This is the beginning.Howard's beautiful saga is the story of three generations of the Cazalet family. Their relatives, their children and their servants - and the fascinating triangle of their affairs . . .

      The Light Years