This was a really interesting and marvelously written book which I really enjoyed. The time setting was unclear but having been published in 1972, I assumed it was from around that era. It did not state but references to monetary values clarified this somewhat. It is certainly not one of her bes...
This is the third in the chronicle and I'm going to continue with the 3 stars ratings. I'm enjoying it and it gets a little easier as it goes because the people are more familiar but something about the way she sets up paragraphs leaves me cold. I am not always positive who we are reading about u...
Elizabeth Jane Howard is probably best known for her panoramic CAZALET series, which chronicles the rise and fall of an upper middle class British family before, during, and after WWII. (It was made into a Masterpiece Theater Presentation.)But in this collection of short stories she shows off her...
"Falling" is not only a novel that delves into the anatomy of a seduction. It is also masterful in that it gives the reader access into both the inner and outer lives of the two people involved: Henry Kent and Daisy Langrish. Elizabeth Jane Howard fleshes them out with the skill that Vermeer, ...
God, Howard is SUCH a good writer. Massively under-rated and misunderstood by many and deserves to be more frequently read. This is her first novel and is extraorindarily good. She has a talent for getting right under the skin of each of her characters so that you really understand their thought...
The first book in a saga that explores the impact of the changes that overtook Britain in the late twentieth century, The Light Years focuses on an extended upper-middle class family just before the outbreak of World War Two. Elizabeth Jane Howard has an unusual narrative technique in that the po...
I enjoyed this book a great deal. All of Howard's books (that I've read) are very much of their time - she has a gift for portraying the slightly grubby feel of post-war England - bed sits and inconveniences - in contrast to the pre-war comfort of more established/monied homes. In this she someti...
There were many authors in this book that truly deserve a 2nd look; I loved that she read ALL of Anita Brookner as well as her honesty about Jane Austen.