The Long View
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Beschrijving
From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, this is a profound, heartbreaking portrait of a marriage at its end.
Beautifully written and richly perceptive
When I read
The Long View
. . . I realized I would never write anything of such subtlety and penetration: there was no point in even hoping to write a novel if this was the standard of excellence
What a beautiful, subtle, endlessly insightful writer. What compassion, what mesmerising detail, what godlike lightness of touch
Her talent seemed so effervescent, so unstoppable, that there was no predicting where it might take her
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.
