{"product_id":"the-light-years-paperback","title":"The Light Years - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Jane Howard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis first novel in the beloved Cazalet Chronicles books introduces us to a multigenerational aristocratic English family--and the tangled lives of their in-laws, children, and servants--as their country teeters on the brink of World War II.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the opening scene--the maids, in their thin flannel nightdresses, rising at dawn to prepare the family's morning tea--we are irresistibly drawn into the Cazalets' intimate world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1937, the coming war is only a distant cloud on the horizon. As the various Cazalet households prepare for their summer pilgrimage to the family estate in the Sussex countryside, we meet hearty Edward, in love with but by no means faithful to his good wife, Villy; Hugh, wounded in the Great War, devoted to pregnant Sybil; Rupert, who worships the body if not the mind of his demanding wife, Zoe; and Rachel, the unmarried sister, conducting a desperate clandestine love affair under the family roof. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Vivid and compulsively readable\" (\u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e), this is a masterpiece in the tradition of \u003ci\u003eUpstairs, Downstairs\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDownton Abbey\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Jane Howard was a highly acclaimed English novelist, as well as an actress, model, and playwright. In 1951 she won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful Visit.\u003c\/i\u003e Six books followed before she wrote her best-known work, The Cazalet Chronicles, a five-part bestselling series about a multigenerational family during wartime Britain. All novels--\u003ci\u003eThe Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion, Casting Off\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAll Change\u003c\/i\u003e--have become modern classics and were adapted into a major BBC radio and TV series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.12 x 8.54 x 5.62 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 20, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52555906416933,"sku":"9780671527938","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0987\/2487\/2485\/files\/VW-FCOKo8p9780671527938.webp?v=1781362137","url":"https:\/\/c4lhome.com\/products\/the-light-years-paperback","provider":" Companion for Life Five Home","version":"1.0","type":"link"}