Elizabeth Jane Howard

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1972
  • Latest Book:
    November 2017
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Full Series List in Order

The Cazalet Chronicles

1 - The Light Years (Jul-1995)
2 - Marking Time (Aug-1992)
3 - Confusion (Apr-1994)
4 - Casting Off (Aug-1996)
5 - All Change (Nov-2013)

Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • Odd Girl Out

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    Anne and Edmund Cornhill lead an idyllic existence at their lovely home not far from London. Happily married for ten years, they enjoy a maximum of domestic satisfaction, retooling a healthy erotic life and a mutual respect for one another's autonomy...

  • Mr. Wrong

    A short story anthology of thrills, chills, and the impulses and longings that drive us, from the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles.   In this dazzling collection, author Elizabeth Jane Howard mines the rich terrain of the heart with ...

  • After Julius

    It is twenty years since Julius died, but his last heroic action still affects the lives of the people he left behind. Emma, his youngest daughter, twenty-seven years old afraid of men. Cressida, her sister, a war widow, blindly searching for love in...

  • The Long View

    Journeying backward in time -- from 1950 to 1926 -- this masterpiece of women’s literary fiction presents an indelible portrait of a marriage   Forty-three-year-old Antonia Fleming is preparing a dinner party for eight at the house in Campden...

  • Getting It Right

    A London hairdresser’s life begins to change dramatically when he meets two very different women at a party in this delightful social comedy.   Thirty-one-year-old Gavin Lamb is a shy hairdresser in London’s West End. Self-educated, he like...

  • Marking Time

    The Cazalet Chronicles - 2

    For fans of Downton Abbey, the second volume of the critically acclaimed Cazalet saga takes readers into the lives of an extended British family and their devoted retinue   It is 1939, and Hitler has just invaded Poland. The exigencies of wartim...

  • Confusion

    The Cazalet Chronicles - 3

    The women of the Cazalet family carry on while WWII casts its shadow over England as the saga by the award-winning author of The Light Years continues. In the spring of 1942, after the attacks on Pearl Harbor have pulled America into the war, the wor...

  • The Light Years

    The Cazalet Chronicles - 1

    The first novel of the Cazalet Chronicle, this masterpiece in the tradition of Upstairs, Downstairs takes us to the Cazalet household in 1930s England, when the coming war is only a distant cloud on the horizon. Elizabeth Howard paints an irresistibl...

  • Casting Off

    The Cazalet Chronicles - 4

    The Cazalet family saga continues as they struggle to adapt to a new world after WWII in this international-bestselling series for fans of Downton Abbey. The war is over, but for the Cazalets -- and England -- the challenges continue. Against th...



  • Love All

    A beautiful, very moving, melancholic and elegiac novel set in the late 1960s in Melton, a small town in the West Country. The story revolves around a disparate group of people who come together there to establish an arts festival. There is Jack C...

  • We are for the Dark

  • All Change

    The Cazalet Chronicles - 5

    Written twenty years after the publication of Casting Off, the final volume of the Cazalet Chronicles begins in 1956 when the death of the family matriarch brings the scattered members of the extended clan back together   The death of eighty-nin...

  • The Cazalets

    Penelope Wilton narrates BBC Radio 4's epic dramatization of the treasured family saga Elizabeth Jane Howard's five-book chronicle of the upper-middle class Cazalet family begins in 1938, as siblings Hugh, Edward, Ruper, and Rachel join together f...

  • The Beautiful Visit

    The author of the bestselling Cazalet Chronicles brilliantly captures the coming-of-age hopes and yearnings of an adolescent English girl during World War I   The fourth child born to a struggling musician and a mother who’s an incurable roman...

  • The Sea Change

    A young Englishwoman -- akin to a Jane Austen heroine -- transforms the lives of a couple who has suffered tragic loss in this story of love and redemption   Fourteen years after her death, the ghost of their baby daughter, Sarah, haunts world-f...

  • Something in Disguise

    An unforgettable novel about love, family, life, and death in 1960s England   Col. Herbert Brown-Lacy’s daughter, Alice, is getting married -- more to escape her father than anything else. Though in truth Alice’s stepmother May has been nice...

  • The Cazalet Chronicles

    For fans of Downton Abbey: A multigenerational saga of an upper-middle-class British family before, during, and after World War II by a bestselling author.   As war clouds gather on England’s horizon, the Cazalet siblings, along with thei...

  • The Amazing Adventures of Freddie Whitemouse

    From the much-loved author of the Cazalet Chronicles comes Elizabeth Jane Howard's first children's book, The Amazing Adventures of Freddie Whitemouse, following the magical journey of a mouse who wishes to be anything but himself.The trouble was tha...

  • Falling

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    An aging con man sets his sights on a twice-burned, sixtyish woman in this suspenseful novel from the author of the bestselling Cazalet Chronicles.   Harry Kent is the caretaker of a houseboat on the English canal where he lives, subsisting on a...



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Elizabeth Jane Howard has published 19 books.

Elizabeth Jane Howard does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Amazing Adventures of Freddie Whitemouse, was published in November 2017.

The first book by Elizabeth Jane Howard, Odd Girl Out, was published in January 1972.

Yes. Elizabeth Jane Howard has 1 series.
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