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The author attempts to capture the longing, excitement and comedy of adolescence in this story of a young girl growing up in the years around World War I.
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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 ninety, at home in Suffolk on 2 January 2014.
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A young woman, the daughter of unremarkable parents, passes through an ordinary childhood with little emotional awareness until age 16 when she's invited by distant acquaintances to a house party, which becomes the beautiful visit and the measuring stick of her past and present. Such a novel deserves a narrator of the highest abilities, and Juliet Stevenson is just that. She captures her audience with determined awareness and delicate timing. She steers each character to its proper niche and manipulates the author's words with an intelligence one can hear. J.P. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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- PublisherVintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)
- Publication date1957
- ISBN 10 0224609777
- ISBN 13 9780224609777
- BindingHardcover
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The Beautiful Visit
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Jonathan Cape, London, 1971
ISBN 10: 0224609777
ISBN 13: 9780224609777
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Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Faint soil mark on foredge, else fine in a price-clipped, near fine dust jacket with modest foxing. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "With kind regards to Michael Curtis. Elizabeth Jane Howard." Author's first novel. Seller Inventory # 590410
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