Marking Time
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Beschrijving
The second book in the landmark Cazalet Chronicles, beloved by generations of readers. As war breaks out in Britain,
Marking Time
follows a family wondering if their lives will ever return to normal.
What magic transforms a book into a compelling, moving, unputdownable read? I don’t know, but whatever it is, [The Cazalet Chronicles] have it. The characters! I cared about them so much. They behave in interesting, venal, believable ways. They’re recognisably human: frustrating, flawed, lovable. Maybe my favourite books ever
She 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
Like [Elena] Ferrante, Howard’s fictional sphere is domestic and yet reveals deeper truths about human nature
Howard is a sharp observer of human drama and psychology, and writes about pain, loss and longing superbly well
I don’t know how I’d managed to miss [The Cazalet Chronicles] until now, but they’re absolute heaven
No detail is too small to be included, so charged with significance is the material envelope of that lost world
A dazzling historical reconstruction
Charming, poignant and quite irresistible . . . to be cherished and shared
The Cazalets have earned an honoured place among the great saga families . . . rendered thrillingly three-dimensional by a master craftsman
Elizabeth Jane Howard was the author of fifteen highly acclaimed novels. 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. 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.
