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As seen on BBC Two's 'Between the Covers'Told with exceptional grace, The Light Years is a modern classic of twentieth-century English life and is the first novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard’s extraordinary, bestselling family saga, The Cazalet Chronicles. 'Compelling, moving, unputdownable . .. Maybe my favourite books ever' - Marian Keyes, bestselling author of My Favourite Mistake1937. Every summer, the Cazalet brothers – Hugh, Edward and Rupert – return to the family home in the heart of the Sussex countryside with their wives and children.There, they are joined by their formidable parents and unmarried sister Rachel to enjoy two glorious months of picnics, games and sun-drenched excursions to the coast. But not even this idyllic setting can soothe the siblings’ fears and heartache. Hugh, haunted by memories of the Great War, is terrified at the looming prospect of a second; Edward, charming and handsome, is torn between his wife and his latest infidelity; and Rupert, a talented paint

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Traces the lives of Antonia and Conrad Fleming from 1926 to 1950, following Antonia's consideration of the decisions she has made and the emergence of her strong personality from the carefully designe

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