All Change is the fifth and final volume in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling The Cazalet Chronicles, where the old world begins to fade from view and a new dawn emerges.
It is the 1950s and as the Duchy, the Cazalets' beloved matriarch, dies, she takes with her the last remnants of a disappearing world - houses with servants, class, and tradition - in which the Cazalets have thrived.
Louise, now divorced, becomes entangled in a painful affair, while Polly and Clary must balance marriage and motherhood with their own ideas and ambitions. Hugh and Edward, now in their sixties, are feeling ill-equipped for this modern world, while Villy, long abandoned by her husband, must at last learn to live independently. But it is Rachel, who has always lived for others, who will face her greatest challenges yet.
As the Cazalets descend on Home Place for Christmas, only one thing is certain: nothing will ever be the same again.
With cover artwork exclusively designed by artist Luke Edward Hall, this is the heartbreaking and heartwarming final instalment of Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling series.
'She is one of those novelists who shows, through her work, what the novel is for . . . She helps us to do the necessary thing - open our eyes and our hearts' - Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall
All Change is the fifth and final volume in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling The Cazalet Chronicles, where the old world begins to fade from view and a new dawn emerges.
It is the 1950s and as the Duchy, the Cazalets' beloved matriarch, dies, she takes with her the last remnants of a disappearing world - houses with servants, class, and tradition - in which the Cazalets have thrived.
Louise, now divorced, becomes entangled in a painful affair, while Polly and Clary must balance marriage and motherhood with their own ideas and ambitions. Hugh and Edward, now in their sixties, are feeling ill-equipped for this modern world, while Villy, long abandoned by her husband, must at last learn to live independently. But it is Rachel, who has always lived for others, who will face her greatest challenges yet.
As the Cazalets descend on Home Place for Christmas, only one thing is certain: nothing will ever be the same again.
With cover artwork exclusively designed by artist Luke Edward Hall, this is the heartbreaking and heartwarming final instalment of Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling series.
'She is one of those novelists who shows, through her work, what the novel is for . . . She helps us to do the necessary thing - open our eyes and our hearts' - Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall
The fifth and final book in the landmark Cazalet Chronicles, previously a BBC radio and TV series. All Change follows the characters of a privileged family coming to terms with life in post-war England.
Elizabeth Jane Howard was the author of fifteen highly acclaimed novels. The Cazalet Chronicles - The Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion, Casting Off and All Change - have become established as modern classics and have been adapted for a major BBC television series and for BBC Radio 4. In 2000 she was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, and in 2002 Macmillan published her autobiography, Slipstream. She died, aged ninety, at home in Suffolk on 2 January 2014.
If I were sent to a desert island with one book this would be my
choice
*Her Majesty Queen Camilla*
Charming, poignant and quite irresistible . . . to be cherished and
shared
*The Times*
Elizabeth Jane Howard is one of those novelists who shows, through
her work, what the novel is for . . . She helps us to do the
necessary thing – open our eyes and our hearts
*Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall*
The Cazalets have earned an honoured place among the great saga
families . . . rendered thrillingly three-dimensional by a master
craftsman
*Sunday Telegraph*
Heartwarming and wise
*Observer*
A family saga of the best kind . . . a must
*Tatler*
Beautifully written and utterly engrossing
*Woman & Home*
Superb . . . hypnotic . . . very funny
*Spectator*
Evocative and gracefully written
*Cosmopolitan*
A dazzling historical reconstruction
*Penelope Fitzgerald, Booker Prize-winning author of
Offshore*
This chronicle will be read, like Trollope, as a classic about life
in England in our century
*Sybille Bedford, author of A Legacy and Jigsaw*
Gloriously addictive . . . Family loyalty, betrayals, triumphs,
tragedy, births and deaths are all blissfully here, and you become
emotionally absorbed in the fate of each character
*Daily Mail*
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