Jane Marie Howard

Slipstream: A Memoir

Born in London in 1923, Elizabeth Jane Howard was privately educated at home, moving on to short-lived careers as an actress and model, before writing her first acclaimed novel, "The Beautiful Visit", in 1950. She has written 12 highly regarded novels, most recently "Falling". Her Cazalet Chronicles...

Families

In Families Jane Howard informally visits many dozens of families and tries to discover what makes the best ones work so well. Families are not dying, she finds, although they are evolving in various ways. From the tightest-knit nuclear family or extended clan to the most fragile new commune, the f...

Marking Time (Cazalet Chronicle)

The wonderful sequel to The Light Years returns readers to Britain in September, 1939, as war breaks out. Sheltered Louise, now 16, goes from cooking school to London parties. For 14-year-old Polly, the terrors of war cannot forestall the pangs of adolescence. And though Clary's father has been repo...

All Change (Cazalet Chronicles)

It is the 1950s and as the Duchy, the Cazalets' beloved matriarch, dies, she takes with her the last remnants of a disappearing world - of houses with servants, of class and tradition - in which the Cazalets have thrived. Louise, now divorced, becomes entangled in a painful affair; while Polly and C...

The Light Years (Cazalet Chronicle)

In 1937, the coming war is only a distant cloud on Britain's horizon. As the Cazalet households prepare for their summer pilgrimage to the family estate in Sussex, readers meet Edward, in love with but by no means faithful to his wife Villy; Hugh, wounded in the Great War; Rupert, who worships his l...

Falling

Henry Kent has been looking for someone. Anyone will do, as long as they are a woman, preferably with some money. But when writer Daisy Langrish buys a cottage close by he arouses her agent's suspicions, who discovers a chilling secret.

Odd Girl Out

Anne and Edmund Cornhill's idyllic ten-year marriage is abruptly changed by the arrival of Clara, who was once married to Edmund's father and who overshadows the Cornhill's happy life with her lonely malevolence. Reissue.

Confusion (Volume Three of the Cazalet Chronicle)

In the wake of her mother's death, Polly moves to London and becomes involved in a love triangle with her cousin and a family friend, while teenage Louise suffers an ill-fated pregnancy and Zoe+a5 begins an affair. Reprint. PW.

When I'm Sleepy

When I'm Sleepy

When I'm Hungry

When I'm Sleepy

Cuando Tengo Sueno

Commune With the Angels: A Heavenly Handbook

Please Touch

A Different Woman

Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard, CBE, FRSL (26 March 1923 2 January 2014), was an English novelist. She had previously been an actress and a model.