Publisher's Synopsis
The place is once again Home Place, Sussex but the year is now 1939. 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. At Home Place, the windows are blacked out and food is becoming scarce. And a new generation of Cazalets takes up the story. 'A work of solid and fascinating reality - and beauty. I read on with admiration and joy. In due course, this chronicle will be read, like Trollope, as a classic about life in England in our century' - Sybille Bedford 'She writes brilliantly and her characters are always totally believable. She makes you laugh, she sometimes shocks, and often makes you cry' - Rosamund Pilcher 'A charming, poignant and quite irresistible novel, to be cherished and shared' The Times.
