Anne and Edmund Cornhill lead an idyllic existence at their lovely home not far from London. Happily married for ten years, they enjoy a maximum of domestic satisfaction, retooling a healthy erotic life and a mutual respect for one another's autonomy...
It is twenty years since Julius died, but his last heroic action still affects the lives of the people he left behind. Emma, his youngest daughter, twenty-seven years old afraid of men. Cressida, her sister, a war widow, blindly searching for love in...
Journeying backward in time -- from 1950 to 1926 -- this masterpiece of women’s literary fiction presents an indelible portrait of a marriage Forty-three-year-old Antonia Fleming is preparing a dinner party for eight at the house in Campden...
A London hairdresser’s life begins to change dramatically when he meets two very different women at a party in this delightful social comedy. Thirty-one-year-old Gavin Lamb is a shy hairdresser in London’s West End. Self-educated, he like...
For fans of Downton Abbey, the second volume of the critically acclaimed Cazalet saga takes readers into the lives of an extended British family and their devoted retinue It is 1939, and Hitler has just invaded Poland. The exigencies of wartim...
The first novel of the Cazalet Chronicle, this masterpiece in the tradition of Upstairs, Downstairs takes us to the Cazalet household in 1930s England, when the coming war is only a distant cloud on the horizon. Elizabeth Howard paints an irresistibl...
The Cazalet family saga continues as they struggle to adapt to a new world after WWII in this international-bestselling series for fans of Downton Abbey. The war is over, but for the Cazalets -- and England -- the challenges continue. Against th...
Written twenty years after the publication of Casting Off, the final volume of the Cazalet Chronicles begins in 1956 when the death of the family matriarch brings the scattered members of the extended clan back together The death of eighty-nin...
Penelope Wilton narrates BBC Radio 4's epic dramatization of the treasured family saga Elizabeth Jane Howard's five-book chronicle of the upper-middle class Cazalet family begins in 1938, as siblings Hugh, Edward, Ruper, and Rachel join together f...
The author of the bestselling Cazalet Chronicles brilliantly captures the coming-of-age hopes and yearnings of an adolescent English girl during World War I The fourth child born to a struggling musician and a mother who’s an incurable roman...
A young Englishwoman -- akin to a Jane Austen heroine -- transforms the lives of a couple who has suffered tragic loss in this story of love and redemption Fourteen years after her death, the ghost of their baby daughter, Sarah, haunts world-f...
An unforgettable novel about love, family, life, and death in 1960s England Col. Herbert Brown-Lacy’s daughter, Alice, is getting married -- more to escape her father than anything else. Though in truth Alice’s stepmother May has been nice...
For fans of Downton Abbey: A multigenerational saga of an upper-middle-class British family before, during, and after World War II by a bestselling author. As war clouds gather on England’s horizon, the Cazalet siblings, along with thei...
From the much-loved author of the Cazalet Chronicles comes Elizabeth Jane Howard's first children's book, The Amazing Adventures of Freddie Whitemouse, following the magical journey of a mouse who wishes to be anything but himself.The trouble was tha...
An aging con man sets his sights on a twice-burned, sixtyish woman in this suspenseful novel from the author of the bestselling Cazalet Chronicles. Harry Kent is the caretaker of a houseboat on the English canal where he lives, subsisting on a...