The Cazalet family and the social changes surrounding the Second World War provide the centre of Elizabeth Jane Howard’s fiction. The Light Years introduces the Cazalets during summers at the family home, while Marking Time, Confusion, Casting Off and All Change carry children and adults through evacuation, marriages, affairs, ageing and social change. Howard also wrote standalone novels such as The Long View, which looks backwards through a marriage, and Falling, about an older woman drawn into a dangerous relationship. Her prose is precise, psychologically alert and patient with large casts. The most useful neighbouring categories are She British family saga, women’s literary fiction and Second World War home-front novels alongside Rosamunde Pilcher and Penelope Lively. Read more Less
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