Sách - Casting Off by Elizabeth Jane Howard (UK edition, paperback)

Ships from and sold by EXPERAL Singapore Publisher: Macmillan UK Origin: United Kingdom (Imported) ISBN 13: 9781529049428 Condition: Brandnew Binding: paperback Pages: 656 Dimensons: 196 x 131 x 42 | 422 (gram) ---------------------------------------- If I were sent to a desert island with one book this would be my choiceCharming, poignant and quite irresistible . . . To be cherished and sharedShe 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 heartsThe Cazalets have earned an honoured place among the great saga families . . . rendered thrillingly three-dimensional by a master craftsmanSuperb . . . hypnotic . . . very funnyEvocative and gracefully writtenA family saga of the best kind . . . a mustA dazzling historical reconstructionThis chronicle will be read, like Trollope, as a classic about life in England in our centuryGloriously addictive . . . Family loyalty, betrayals, triumphs, tragedy, births and s are all blissfully here, and you become emotionally absorbed in the fate of each characterThe fourth book in the landmark Cazalet Chronicles, previously a BBC radio and TV series. With peace finally declared, Casting Off follows the challenges of the Cazalet family emerging from war-torn Britain. The Second World War has finally ended and so begins a new era of freedom and opportunity for the Cazalet family. Elizabeth Jane Howard's magnificent Cazalet Chronicles continues with Casting Off, the fourth novel in the saga.The Cazalet cousins are now in their twenties, trying to piece together their lives in the aftermath of the war. Louise is faced with her father's new mistress and her mother's grief at his betrayal, while suffering in a loveless marriage of her own. Clary is struggling to understand why her beloved father chose to stay in France long after it was safe to return to Britain, and both she and Polly are madly in love with much older men.Polly, Clary and Louise must face the truth about the adult world, while their fathers – Rupert, Hugh and Edward – must make choices that will decide their own, and the family's, future.With cover artwork exclusively designed by artist Luke Edward Hall, this is the heartbreaking and heartwarming fourth instalment of Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling series. It is followed by All Change, the fifth and final book in the series.'Charming, poignant and quite irresistible . . . to be cherished and shared' – The Times Biographical NoteElizabeth 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 d, aged ninety, at home in Suffolk on 2 January 2014. Giá sản phẩm trên Tiki đã bao gồm thuế theo luật hiện hành. Bên cạnh đó, tuỳ vào loại sản phẩm, hình thức và địa chỉ giao hàng mà có thể phát sinh thêm chi phí khác như phí vận chuyển, phụ phí hàng cồng kềnh, thuế nhập khẩu (đối với đơn hàng giao từ nước ngoài có giá trị trên 1 triệu đồng).....