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Zusatztext Graceful, moving. . . Howard's elegant prose, keen eye for detail and ability to make the reader care about her characters are second to none. Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Jane Howard was the author of fifteen highly acclaimed novels, including the five volumes of The Cazalet Chronicles, as well as After Julius , Falling , Getting It Right , Love All , and Odd Girl Out . 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 for BBC Radio 4. She had one child, Nicola, and married three times - lastly to fellow author Sir Kingsley Amis. In 2000 she was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, and in 2002 Macmillan published her autobiography, Slipstream . She died, aged ninety, at home in Suffolk on 2 January 2014. Klappentext The late 1960s. For Persephone 'Percy' Plover - the daughter of distant and neglectful parents - the innocent days of childhood are long past. Newly single, unemployed and living with her aunt, Percy finds herself drifting. When her aunt, a garden designer, is offered a few weeks of work in the West Country, dealing with the terraces and glasshouses of a once-beautiful manor house in Melton, Percy decides to join her. And Jack, the new owner of Melton House, recently divorced and desperate to avoid loneliness, may find a few things to keep her busy . . . Elizabeth Jane Howard's renowned wit and perception shines through in this touching account of tangled lives and loves. 'Graceful, moving . . . Howard's elegant prose, keen eye for detail and ability to make the reader care about her characters are second to none' Daily Express A novel of love and its fragility, and the strength of family love, from the lauded, bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles Zusammenfassung A novel of love and its fragility, and the strength of family love, from the lauded, bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles....
