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
The Golden Hours is a total delight… A new generation takes up the mantle of the next generation of Cazalets: with a seventh and eighth volume promised, long may it continue. – Ella Risbridger * The Guardian *
This sequel to The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard is written by Howard’s niece, author Louisa Young and is a complete joy. * Good Housekeeping *
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
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
This sequel to Elizabeth Jane Howard’s Cazalet Chronicles is a corker * Woman & Home *
A book full of pleasures – Susie Boyt, author of Loved and Missed
If, like me, the end of Elizabeth Jane Howard’s exquisite Cazalet chronicles left you bereft, take heart. In The Golden Hours, Louisa Young seamlessly picks up the thread and weaves magical new life into one of my favourite fictional families. – Indira Varma
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
Should you read this new volume of the Cazalet Chronicles? Yes! * The Times *
A proper triumph * Fabulous Magazine *
Breezy, elegant prose - it’s addictive reading * Mail on Sunday *
Rich characterisation, and fascinating historical insight into the era. Elizabeth Jane Howard … would approve * i Paper *
Beautifully written and emotionally intelligent * Daily Mail *

Louisa Young is a writer and songwriter, a former journalist, and a Londoner. The Washington Post describes her 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:

• Memoir: You Left Early, a True Story of Love and Alcohol
• Cultural History: The Book of the Heart
• Biography: A Great Task of Happiness; The Life of Kathleen Scott (Kathleen Scott was Captain Scott’s widow, Louisa’s grandmother, and Jane’s mother-in-law).

Under the pseudonym Zizou Corder, Louisa co-authored the children’s Lionboy novels with her daughter, the actor Isabel Adomakoh. Louisa 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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