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

Ships from and sold by EXPERAL Singapore Publisher: Macmillan UK Origin: United Kingdom (Imported) ISBN 13: 9781529049459 Condition: Brandnew Binding: paperback Pages: 512 Dimensons: 196 x 130 x 35 | 344 (gram) ---------------------------------------- Review QuoteIf I were sent to a desert island with one book this would be my choice Review QuoteCharming, poignant and quite irresistible . . . to be cherished and shared Review QuoteShe 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 Review QuoteThe Cazalets have earned an honoured place among the great saga families . . . rendered thrillingly three-dimensional by a master craftsman Review QuoteSuperb . . . hypnotic . . . very funny Review QuoteEvocative and gracefully written Review QuoteA family saga of the best kind . . . a must Review QuoteA dazzling historical reconstruction Review QuoteThis chronicle will be read, like Trollope, as a classic about life in England in our century Review QuoteGloriously addictive . . . Family loyalty, betrayals, triumphs, tragedy, births and s are all blissfully here, and you become emotionally absorbed in the fate of each characterThe third book in the landmark Cazalet Chronicles, previously a BBC radio and TV series. Set in wartime Britain, Confusion follows the relationships of the Cazalet family and their lives, loves and losses. The Cazalet Chronicles continues with the third in the series, Confusion, set in the height of the Second World War and where chaos has become a way of life for the Cazalet family.It's 1942 and the dark days of war seem never-ending. Scattered across the still-peaceful Sus 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 and Clary, now in their late teens, finally fulfil their ambition of living together in London. But the reality of the city is not quite what they imagined, and Polly is struggling to come to terms with the death of her mother and manage her grieving father. Clary, meanwhile, 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.With cover artwork exclusively designed by artist Luke Edward Hall, this is the heartbreaking and heartwarming third instalment of Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling series. It is followed by the fourth book, Casting Off.'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).....