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Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard, CBE, was an English novelist. She was an actress and a model before becoming a novelist. In 1951, she won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her first novel, The Beautiful Visit. Six further novels followed, before she embarked on her best known work The Cazalet Chronicles, a four novel family saga set in wartime Britain. The Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion, and Casting Off were serialised by Cinema Verity for BBC television as The Cazalets. She has also written a book of short stories, Mr Wrong, and edited two anthologies. Her last novel in The Cazalet Chronicles series, All Change, was published in November 2013.

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Title:

The Beautiful Visit (MP3)

Written by:

Elizabeth Jane Howard 

Read by:

Juliet Stevenson 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

13 hours 30 minutes 

MP3 size:

559 MB 

Published:

April 28 2017 

Available Date:

April 28 2017 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781489391780 

Genres:

Fiction; Sagas 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Audible audio 

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AUD$ 39.95

AUD$ 39.95

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Winner John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 1951

'Distinctive, self-assured and remarkably sensual: she has always been a writer to whom smells and flavours matter a great deal.'
The Guardian

From the lauded, bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard's debut.

Life had been distinctly lacking in possibilities – until The Visit. But, ever afterwards, just remembering the smell of the Lancings' house would enrapture her, taking her back to that very first day when Lucy and Gerald had picked her up from the station ... On the eve of an unusual voyage, a young woman reviews her life. Her story begins with a 'beautiful visit' to friends in the country which serves as an awakening experience. What follows is an account of her struggle to retain the mood of her visit. All the longing, excitement and poignant comedy of adolescence are captured in Elizabeth Jane Howard's first novel about a young girl growing up in the years around the First World War.

'Interesting and original ... Howard has true imagination and a kind of sensuous power. She creates a wonderful atmosphere of uneasiness and oppression; she can also draw scenes with ironic brilliance: hers seems to me to be a remarkable talent'
New Statesman