Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard (1995, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherWashington Square Press

ISBN-100671527932

ISBN-139780671527938

eBay Product ID (ePID)212883

Product Key Features

Book TitleLight Years

Number of Pages448 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1995

TopicContemporary Women, Family Life, General, Literary, Historical

GenreFiction

AuthorElizabeth Jane Howard

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight16.5 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition21

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal823.9/14

SynopsisThis first novel in the beloved Cazalet Chronicles books introduces us to a multigenerational aristocratic English family--and the tangled lives of their in-laws, children, and servants--as their country teeters on the brink of World War II. From the opening scene--the maids, in their thin flannel nightdresses, rising at dawn to prepare the family's morning tea--we are irresistibly drawn into the Cazalets' intimate world. In 1937, the coming war is only a distant cloud on the horizon. As the various Cazalet households prepare for their summer pilgrimage to the family estate in the Sussex countryside, we meet hearty Edward, in love with but by no means faithful to his good wife, Villy; Hugh, wounded in the Great War, devoted to pregnant Sybil; Rupert, who worships the body if not the mind of his demanding wife, Zoe; and Rachel, the unmarried sister, conducting a desperate clandestine love affair under the family roof. "Vivid and compulsively readable" ( Sunday Telegraph ), this is a masterpiece in the tradition of Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey ., The tangled lives of three generations evoke a vanished world in this, the first volume of the Cazalet Chronicle from historical fiction author Elizabeth Jane Howard. Three generations of the Cazalet family played out their lives - with their relatives, their children and their servants - anda fascinating triangle of their affairs.