Odd Girl Out

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Anna and Edmund Cornhill have a happy marriage and a lovely home. They are content, complete, absorbed in their private idyll. Arabella, who comes to stay one lazy summer, is rich, rootless and amoral - and, as they find out, beautiful and loving. A web of love and desire entangles these three; but in such a treacherous game, someone must finally lose out. Elizabeth Jane Howard reveals with elegant prose and devastating accuracy a situation both shattering and destructive . . . Praise for Elizabeth Jane Howard 'She is one of those novelists who shows, through her work, what the novel is for . . . She helps us to do the necessary thing - open our eyes and our hearts' Hilary Mantel 'Her navigation of the web of human relations [is] seemingly effortless' Sunday Telegraph A marriage is put to the test in this astonishing exploration of love from the author of the Cazalet Chronicles. Zusammenfassung A marriage is put to the test in this astonishing exploration of love from the author of the Cazalet Chronicles.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Jane Howard, Howard Elizabeth Jane, Elizabeth Jane Howard
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.07.2015
• EAN: 9781447272366
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-7236-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Sagas, FICTION / Romance / Contemporary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Romantic suspense, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Family life fiction, c 1960 to c 1969, FICTION / World Literature / England / 20th Century, Classic fiction: general and literary