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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 nicer than her previous stepmother-and even her own mother. But May's grown children, Oliver and Elizabeth, are certain their mother made a terrible mistake in her marriage to the dull-as-dishwater Herbert. May clearly...
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The complete multigenerational saga of an upper-middle-class British family before, during, and after World War II. As war clouds gather on England's horizon, the Cazalet siblings, along with their wives, children, and servants, prepare to leave London and join their parents at their Sussex estate, Home Place. Thus begins the decades-spanning family saga that has engrossed millions of readers. * The Light Years: Hugh, the eldest of the Cazalet siblings,...
3) All Change
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Cazalet chronicles volume 5
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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-nine-year-old matriarch Kitty "the Duchy" Cazalet marks the end of an era-and the commencement of great change for the family. The long, difficult marriage of second son Edward to Villy has ended in divorce and...
4) Casting off
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Cazalet chronicles volume 4
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"The excitment of VE day has come and gone, and England remains locked in the drab grip of privation. Polly and Clary Cazalet, now twenty and sharing a London flat, wonder whether life will ever get easier. Against the backdrop of a crumbling empire, the Cazalets and their family, friends, and lovers watch a number of startling events unfold: deaths, weddings, a shattering pregnancy, divorces."--P. [4] of cover.
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Cazalet chronicles volume 1
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In the tradition of Evelyn Waugh and E. M. Forster, the first book in this critically acclaimed multigenerational saga about an upper-middle-class family in Britain before, during, and after World War II recreates a vanished world. As war clouds gather on the distant horizon, Hugh, Edward, and Rupert Cazalet, along with their wives, children, and loyal servants, prepare to leave London for their annual pilgrimage to the family's Sussex estate. There,...
6) Confusion
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In the wake of her mother's death, Polly moves to London and becomes involved in a love triangle with her cousin and a family friend, while teenage Louise suffers an ill-fated pregnancy and Zoe begins an affair.
7) Marking time
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Cazalet chronicles volume 2
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Three Cazalet cousins--Louise, Polly, and Clary--are so eager to shed the trappings of childhood that they view the war from a different perspective than their more experienced parents.
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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 romantic, Lavinia lives an unremarkable existence. But a visit to a sprawling country estate transforms her world and becomes the touchstone for the rest of her life. Lavinia is sixteen when she's invited to a...
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