Product Description
Born in London in 1923, Elizabeth Jane Howard was privately educated at home, moving on to short-lived careers as an actress and model, before writing her first acclaimed novel, "The Beautiful Visit", in 1950. She has written 12 highly regarded novels, most recently "Falling". Her Cazalet Chronicles have become established as modern classics and have been filmed by the BBC. She has been married three times - firstly to Peter Scott, the naturalist and son of Captain Scott, and most famously and tempestuously to Kingsley Amis. It was Amis' son by another marriage, Martin, to whom she introduced the works of Jane Austen and ensured that he received the education that would be the grounding of his own literary career. Her closest friends have included some of the greatest writers and thinkers of the day - Laurie Lee, Arthur Koestler and cecil Day-Lewis, among others. Honest and unflinching, this book illuminates the literary world of the latter half of the 20th century, as well as giving a personal insight into the life of Elizabeth Jane Howard.

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Picked up at Hudsons in Birmingham at the September bookcrossing meeting today

I found the writing a little stilted at time - interesting for a professional writer ( but I suppose writing about your own life is different to writing novels, plays of film scripts). She was certainly linked with some significant people of the 20th Century - an interesting account of a time that was very different to the one we live in now.

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It's back!

This is now available again on the bookshelf on the first floor of the Urban Coffee Company.