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Home Place, Sussex, 1939. The English family at war ... The sunlit days of childish games and family meals are over, as the shadows of war roll in to cloud the lives of one English family. At Home Place, the windows are blacked out and food is becoming scarce as a new generation of Cazalets takes up the story. Louise dreams of being a great actress, Clary is an aspiring writer, while Polly, is burdened with knowledge and the need to share it.

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`A huge treat ... you do rather hope that the saga will go on forever.' -- The Daily Express

'A huge treat ... you do rather hope that the saga will go on forever.' -- The Daily Express

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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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