The Beautiful Visit

Life had been distinctly lacking in possibilities - until The Visit. But, ever afterwards, just remembering the smell of the Lancing's 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 is captured in Elizabeth Jane Howard's first novel about a young girl growing up in the years surrounding the First World War.

'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, New Statesman

'Distinctive, self-assured and remarkably sensual: she has always been a writer to whom smells and flavours matter a great deal' Guardian

About the author

Elizabeth Jane Howard was the author of fifteen 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 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. She died, aged 90, at home in Suffolk on 2 January 2014.

Summary

A profound exploration of youth at a time of war, The Beautiful Visit is the debut novel from the author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard.

Foreword

From the lauded, bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles

Additional text

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.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Jane Howard, Howard Elizabeth Ja, Howard Elizabeth Jane, Elizabeth Jane Howard
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.07.2015
• EAN: 9781447272205
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-7220-5
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Romance / Contemporary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / City Life, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Historical / World War I, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), FICTION / World Literature / England / 20th Century, Classic fiction: general and literary