The Golden Hours

I’m overjoyed to have this new volume in the Cazalet Chronicles. The Golden Hours is a wonderful read – Nina Stibbe, bestselling author of Love, Nina
Effortlessly authentic, pitch-perfect, funny, sexy and heart-wrenching, I can’t remember the last time I lost myself so deliciously in a novel! – Julie Myerson, author of Something Might Happen
A book full of pleasures – Susie Boyt, author of Loved and Missed
Magnificent – a sweeping, arresting continuation of a dearly beloved series, and a majestic tribute to Elizabeth Jane Howard – Stacey Halls, bestselling author of The Familiars
A formidable task to undertake, Louisa Young has triumphed. The Golden Hours is so beautifully written and emotionally acute, it had me enraptured. The Cazalets live again, summoned into being by the surest and cleverest of authors – Elizabeth Buchan, author of Bonjour, Sophie
The Golden Hours is quite simply marvellous. By some magic, Louisa Young has acquired Elizabeth Jane Howard’s touch. It seemed impossible that I would love these Cazalets as much as I love the originals, but I honestly do – Christobel Kent, author of The Loving Husband
Louisa Young is the great chronicler of romantic love and the pain of its loss – Linda Grant, author of When I Lived in Modern Times, on Twelve Months and a Day
Young possesses in abundance emotional conviction, pace and imaginative energy * The Guardian *
The Cazalets have earned an honoured place among the great saga families * Sunday Telegraph *
Maybe my favourite books ever – Marian Keyes, bestselling author of My Favourite Mistake, on The Cazalet Chronicles

Louisa Young is a writer and songwriter, a former journalist, and a Londoner described by The Washington Post as ‘a masterly storyteller’. Her twelve novels include the award-winning ‘My Dear I Wanted to Tell You’ trilogy, which Elizabeth Jane Howard called ‘a triumph’. She has also written the memoir You Left Early, a True Story of Love and Alcohol; the cultural history The Book of the Heart; and the biography A Great Task of Happiness; The Life of Kathleen Scott (who was Captain Scott’s widow, Louisa’s grandmother, and Jane’s mother-in-law).

Louisa is half of the children’s author Zizou Corder. As Zizou Corder, with her daughter the actor Isabel Adomakoh Young, she wrote the ‘Lionboy’ novels for children. She has also released an album of her own songs, ‘You Left Early’, as Birds of Britain, with Alex Mackenzie.

Louisa’s work is published in 32 languages, and she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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