Mr Wrong
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Description
From the lauded, bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, this is a diverse and dazzling collection of short stories.
Howard has a gift for tilting our sense of reality . . . wry humour and elegant perceptions.
Each of these stories may be read again with real pleasure.
As polished, stylish and civilised as her many devotees would expect.
Her talent seemed so effervescent, so unstoppable, that there was no predicting where it might take her. - Hilary Mantel, author of
Wolf Hall
and
Bring Up the Bodies
Elizabeth Jane Howard was the author of fifteen highly acclaimed novels, including the five volumes of The Cazalet Chronicles, as well as
After Julius
,
Falling
,
Getting It Right
,
Love All
, and
Odd Girl Out
. The Cazalet Chronicles –
The Light Years
,
Marking Time
,
Confusion
,
Casting Off
and
All Change
– have become established as modern classics and have been adapted for a major BBC television series and for BBC Radio 4. She had one child, Nicola, and married three times – lastly to fellow author Sir Kingsley Amis. In 2000 she was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, and in 2002 Macmillan published her autobiography,
Slipstream
. She died, aged ninety, at home in Suffolk on 2 January 2014.
