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Confusion Elizabeth Jane Howard

Confusion By Elizabeth Jane Howard

Confusion by Elizabeth Jane Howard


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Set in wartime Britain, Confusion follows the relationships of the Cazalet family and their lives, loves and losses. The third book in the landmark Cazalet Chronicles, adapted into a BBC radio and TV series.

Confusion Summary

Confusion by Elizabeth Jane Howard

Set in the height of the Second World War, The Cazalet Chronicles continues with the third in the series, Confusion, where chaos has become a way of life for the Cazalet family.

'Compelling, moving, unputdownable . . . Maybe my favourite books ever' - Marian Keyes, bestselling author of My Favourite Mistake

Its 1942 and the dark days of war seem never-ending. Scattered across the still-peaceful Sussex countryside and air-raid-threatened London, the divided Cazalets begin to find the battle for survival echoing the confusion in their own lives.

Headstrong, independent Louise surprises the whole family when she abandons her dreams of being an actress and instead makes a society marriage. Polly, now living in London with Clary, is struggling to come to terms with the death of her mother and manage her grieving father. Meanwhile, Clary is painfully aware that what she lacks in beauty she makes up for in intelligence, and is the only member of the family who believes that her father might not be dead . . .

'She helps us to do the necessary thing open our eyes and our hearts' Hilary Mantel, bestselling author of The Mirror and the Light

Confusion is the heartbreaking and heartwarming third instalment of Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling series. It is followed by the fourth book in the series, Casting Off.

Confusion Reviews

What magic transforms a book into a compelling, moving, unputdownable read? I dont know, but whatever it is, [The Cazalet Chronicles] have it. The characters! I cared about them so much. They behave in interesting, venal, believable ways. Theyre recognisably human: frustrating, flawed, lovable. Maybe my favourite books ever -- Marian Keyes, bestselling author of My Favourite Mistake
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, bestselling author of the Wolf Hall trilogy
Like [Elena] Ferrante, Howards fictional sphere is domestic and yet reveals deeper truths about human nature -- Elizabeth Day, bestselling author of Magpie
Howard is a sharp observer of human drama and psychology, and writes about pain, loss and longing superbly well -- Monica Ali, bestselling author of Love Marriage
I dont know how Id managed to miss [The Cazalet Chronicles] until now, but theyre absolute heaven -- Meg Mason, bestselling author of Sorrow and Bliss
[N]o detail is too small to be included, so charged with significance is the material envelope of that lost world -- Tessa Hadley, bestselling author of After the Funeral
A dazzling historical reconstruction -- Penelope Fitzgerald, Booker Prize-winning author of Offshore
Charming, poignant and quite irresistible . . . to be cherished and shared * The Times *
The Cazalets have earned an honoured place among the great saga families . . . rendered thrillingly three-dimensional by a master craftsman * Sunday Telegraph *

About Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard was the author of fifteen highly acclaimed novels, including the five volumes of The Cazalet Chronicles, as well as After Julius, Falling, Getting It Right, Love All, and Odd Girl Out. 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. She had one child, Nicola, and married three times lastly to fellow author Sir Kingsley Amis. In 2000 she was awarded a CBE in the Queens Birthday Honours List, and in 2002 Macmillan published her autobiography, Slipstream. She died, aged ninety, at home in Suffolk on 2 January 2014.

Additional information

NGR9781035042463
9781035042463
1035042460
Confusion by Elizabeth Jane Howard
New
Paperback
Pan Macmillan
2024-06-27
512
N/A
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