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London and Sussex, 1942. The English family in turmoil ... The long, dark days of struggle provide the poignant background to the third book of the Cazalet Chronicles. As the war enters its fourth year, chaos has become a way of life. Both in the still-peaceful Sussex countryside, and in air-raid-threatened London, the divided Cazalets begin to find the battle for survival echoing the confusion in their own lives ... Polly and Clary have left Home Place for London where Archie Lestrange keeps a close eye on them; Louise, surprisingly, has married; Polly makes a painful discovery; Zoe, despairing of Rupert's return, stumbles on solace; and Edward's duplicity demands a reckoning.

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'We are made to understand how war invades the body and the spirit. A birth, a death, adultery, a stumbling marriage - an upper middle class family takes shape with cinematic sharpness.' -- The Daily Mail

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Elizabeth Jane Howard, CBE, was an English novelist. She was an actress and a model before becoming a novelist. In 1951, she won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her first novel, The Beautiful Visit. Six further novels followed, before she embarked on her best known work The Cazalet Chronicles, a four novel family saga set in wartime Britain. The Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion, and Casting Off were serialised by Cinema Verity for BBC television as The Cazalets. She has also written a book of short stories, Mr Wrong, and edited two anthologies. Her last novel in The Cazalet Chronicles series, All Change, was published in November 2013. Jill Balcon was an actress of stage, screen and radio primarily known for her roles in An Ideal Husband (1999), Edward II (1991) and Wittgenstein (1993). She finished top of her class in the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, and first began her career as an announcer for the BBC.

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