The Cazalets try to shape a post-war life while the conflict's consequences continue to influence their relationships.
Elizabeth Jane Howard's family perspective makes historical change visible through ordinary expectations and private disappointments. Choose this as a continuation of a saga interested in the gradual adjustments that follow a major rupture. The appeal is in the distance between the official end of a war and its emotional aftermath.
WHO IS IT FOR?
For readers drawn to character, language and the tensions within ordinary lives.
