MARKING TIME: The Cazalet Chronicles Volume II

Home Place, Sussex, 1939. As the shadows of the Second World War roll in, banishing the sun-drenched days of childish games and trips to the coast, a new generation of Cazalets takes 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 that her beloved father Rupert is now missing somewhere on the shores of France. And sensitive, imaginative Polly feels stuck - without a vocation, without information about her mother's illness, without anything except her nightmares about the war. Beautifully and poignantly told, the novel is the second in the bestselling Cazalet Chronicles, charming, poignant and quite irresistible, to be shared and cherished. 592pp, paperback. Both volumes have family trees and were published in the early 1990s originally. Beautiful rejacketed reprint paperbacks.