Confusion

What magic transforms a book into a compelling, moving, unputdownable read? I don’t 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. They’re 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, Howard’s 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 don’t know how I’d managed to miss [The Cazalet Chronicles] until now, but they’re absolute heaven – Meg Mason, bestselling author of Sorrow and Bliss
No 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 *

Elizabeth Jane Howard was the author of fifteen highly acclaimed novels. Her most famous work, The Cazalet Chronicles, comprises five books:

• The Light Years
• Marking Time
• Confusion
• Casting Off
• All Change

These novels have since become established as modern classics and were 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. In 2002, her autobiography, Slipstream, was published.

Elizabeth Jane Howard died, aged ninety, at her home in Suffolk on 2 January 2014.

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