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Pages:
624
Published:
1 Aug 2026
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Imprint
Picador
ISBN:
9781037409141
Beautifully and poignantly told, Marking Time is the second novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's enduring Cazalet Chronicles.
1939. Home Place, Sussex. As the shadows of the World War II roll in, banishing the sunlit days of childish games and trips to the coast, a new generation of Cazalets take up the family's story.
Louise, who dreams of becoming a great actress, finds herself facing the harsh reality that her parents have their own lives with secrets, passions and yearnings. Clary, an aspiring writer, learns the devastating news of her beloved father's whereabouts while away at war. Zoë, Clary's stepmother, reacts to the news in a different yet equally heartbreaking way. And sensitive, imaginative Polly feels stuck--without a vocation, with the terrifying reality of the fragility of life, stuck without anything except her nightmares of the war.
This edition includes an introduction by Kate Mosse.
Continue this dazzling historical saga with the next novel in the series, Confusion.
1939. Home Place, Sussex. As the shadows of the World War II roll in, banishing the sunlit days of childish games and trips to the coast, a new generation of Cazalets take up the family's story.
Louise, who dreams of becoming a great actress, finds herself facing the harsh reality that her parents have their own lives with secrets, passions and yearnings. Clary, an aspiring writer, learns the devastating news of her beloved father's whereabouts while away at war. Zoë, Clary's stepmother, reacts to the news in a different yet equally heartbreaking way. And sensitive, imaginative Polly feels stuck--without a vocation, with the terrifying reality of the fragility of life, stuck without anything except her nightmares of the war.
This edition includes an introduction by Kate Mosse.
Continue this dazzling historical saga with the next novel in the series, Confusion.
$30.00
