Confusion - Softcover

Howard, Elizabeth Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330339958 ISBN 13: 9780330339957

Publisher: Pan MacMillan, 1994

Synopsis

The third volume in the Cazalet Chronicles, recently adapted for BBC Radio 4

London and Sussex, 1942. The English family in turmoil...

The long, dark days of struggle provide the poignant background to the third book of the Cazalet Chronicle. As the war enters its fourth year, chaos has become a way of life.

Both in the still peaceful Sussex countryside, and in air-raid-threatened London, the divided Cazalets begin to find the battle for survival echoing the confusion in their own lives...

Confusionis the third volume in The Cazalet Chronicle. The next and final novel in the series isCasting Off.

About this title

About the Author:

ELIZABETH JANE HOWARDis the author of fourteen highly acclaimed novels. The Cazalet Chronicle -The Light Years, Marking Time, ConfusionandCasting Off- have become established as modern classics and have been adapted for a major BBC television series and most recently for BBC Radio 4. In 2002 Macmillan published her autobiography, Slipstream. In that same year she was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.

From Publishers Weekly:

Lush, sprawling escapist fiction of the first order, the third installment of the Cazalet Chronicle opens in the spring of 1942 and continues the saga begun in The Light Years and Marking Time. Set in London and the English countryside, much of the story focuses on the eldest Cazalet cousins, Louise, Polly and Clary, as they exit their teens and take their first steps into adulthood. Former acting student Louise has been swept into a brilliant but chilly marriage to Michael Hadleigh, a glamorous portrait painter and aspiring Member of Parliament whose life is controlled by his powerful mother. Best friends Polly and Clary leave the cozy confines of the Cazalet's country home to begin what they hope will be terribly grown-up lives in London. While Polly mourns the recent death of her mother, Clary keeps a journal that she hopes to give to her father, who has been missing since the invasion of Normandy. Alternating with the cousins' stories are chapters devoted to the rest of the Cazalet clan, their friends and lovers, bringing readers up to date on the doings of adulterous Edward, his dutiful spinster sister Rachel, her loving best friend Margot Sidney and others. Howard creates a nearly palpaple world, peopled with the sort of well-conceived characters that linger long in the reader's mind.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Pan MacMillan
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0330339958
• ISBN 13: 9780330339957
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 416