The Beautiful Visit
$19.98
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
8 September 2015
Summary
Life had been distinctly lacking in possibilities - until The Visit. But, ever afterwards, just remembering the smell of the Lancings’ house would enrapture her, taking her back to that very first day when Lucy and Gerald had picked her up from the station … All the longing, excitement and poignant comedy of adolescence are captured in Elizabeth Jane Howard’s first novel about a young girl growing up in the years around the First World War.
‘Interesting and original … Howard has true …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781447272205 |
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| ISBN-10: | 144727220X |
| Author: | Elizabeth Jane Howard |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 8 September 2015 |
| Weight: | 284g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Interesting and original … Howard has true imagination and a kind of sensuous power. She creates a wonderful atmosphere of uneasiness and oppression; she can also draw scenes with ironic brilliance: hers seems to me to be a remarkable talent. – Antonia White, author of Frost in May * New Statesman *
Her talent seemed so effervescent, so unstoppable, that there was no predicting where it might take her – Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Elizabeth Jane Howard was the author of fourteen 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 most recently for BBC Radio 4. In 2002 Macmillan published Elizabeth Jane Howard’s autobiography, Slipstream. In that same year she was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
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