Now in paperback, this continues Howard's popular Cazalet Chronicles series, which has been adapted into a TV show and broadcast on Radio 4.
Set in the 1950s, as the Cazalets' beloved matriarch, the Duchy, dies, it follows the lives of her offspring.
'Elizabeth Jane Howard is one of those novelists who shows, through her work, what the novel is for.
She helps us to do the necessary thing - open our eyes and our hearts' Hilary Mantel.
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