Set in the late 1960s in Melton, a small town in the West Country, this novel tells a story that revolves around a disparate group of people who come together there to establish an arts festival. It is about their intertwining relationships and how they come to love, and not to love each other in different ways and why.

Polly, Clary and Louise, now grown up, are ready to discover the truth about the adult world. While Rupert, Hugh and Edward must make the choices that will decide their own - and the family's - future. For the Cazalets, and all those close to them, one end is another beginning.

Home Place, Sussex, 1937. The English family at home. For two unforgettable summers they gathered together, safe from the advancing storm clouds of war. In the heart of the Sussex countryside these were still sunlit days of childish games, lavish family meals and picnics on the beach.

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

Home Place, Sussex, 1939. The English family at war. The sunlit days of childish games and family meals are over, as the shadows of war roll in to cloud the lives of one English family. Louise dreams of being a great actress, Clary is an aspiring writer, while Polly, is burdened with knowledge and the need to share it.

An elegiac novel set in the late 1960s in Melton, a small town in the West Country. It features a story that revolves around a disparate group of people who come together there to establish an arts festival. It features their intertwining relationships and how they come to love, and not to love each other in different ways and why.

A chronology of love from first love and love at first sight though unrequited love and infidelities to old love that has changed but lasted. The collection includes pieces by Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Laurie Lee, Nancy Mitford, Stendhal, Trollope, Oscar Wilde and more.

* A wonderful novel about first love and childhood summers by Elizabeth Taylor.

Set in the late 1960s in Melton, a small town in the West Country, this story revolves around a disparate group of people who come together there to establish an arts festival.

This revealing autobiography illuminates the literary world of the latter half of the 20th century, as well as giving a personal insight into the life of the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard.

Henry Kent has been looking for someone. Anyone will do, as long as she is a woman, preferably with some money. But when writer Daisy Langrish buys a cottage close by he arouses her agent's suspicions, who discovers a chilling secret.

A chronology of love, from first love and love at first sight, through unrequited love and infidelities, to old love that has changed but lasted. This collection includes pieces by Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Laurie Lee, Nancy Mitford, Stendhal, Trollope, Oscar Wilde, and many more.

It is twenty years since Julius died, but his last heroic action still affects the lives of the people he left behind. Throughout a disastrous - and revelatory - weekend in Sussex, the influence of the dead Julius slowly emerges.

Three generations of Cazalets spend each summer in their family house - safe from the storm clouds of World War II for two unforgettable summers. These sunlit days of childish games and picnics on the beach provide a chronicle of the tangled affairs of an English family.

Emmanuel is a famous playwright and Lilian is his sickly and embittered wife, unable to forget the death of her only child. Rich but discontented, they travel from city to city in the company of their hero-worshipping manager. Then Alberta is appointed as Emmanuel's secretary.

Anne and Edmund Cornhill have a happy marriage, a lovely home and are content, until Arabella comes to stay one summer. She is rich, rootless and amoral, and as the web of desire and love entangles all three, they realise someone will lose out. From the author of THE LONG VIEW and AFTER JULIUS. Originally published in 1972.

The story of Antonia and Conrad Fleming's marriage offers a view of a shifting relationship, and the way in which social obligations and sophistication replace youthful vulnerability. Antonia's life is traced from youth to middle age, as daughter, wife, lover and mother.