“ Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance. ” ― Roy T. Bennett
Howard's fifth novel is the story of a marriage that has lasted a decade and has settled into a comfortable and very pleasurable routine. Yet even the happiest relationship can be sabotaged easily--and quickly, too, if the wrong person should come along.
The long-awaited final volume of Howard's superb quartet of novels that chronicles the lives of an extended family. With the excitement of VE Day come and gone, England remains locked in the drab grip of deprivation. Against this backdrop of a crumbling e
'The Long View', a revealing portrait of a marriage, is the ingenious construction of a couple's story that offers a remarkable and very real view of the shifting relationship between two people from 1950 to 1926.(The author, Elizabeth Jane Howard, rose t
It is twenty years since Julius died, but his last heroic action still affects the lives of the people he left behind. Emma, his youngest daughter, twenty-seven years old and afraid of men. Cressida, her sister, a war widow, blindly searching for love in
The follow-up to the nationwide bestseller I Shudder at Your Touch. Here are 22 sensually scary stories from authors such as Ramsey Campbell, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and more. Follow their unflinching imaginatio
To the delight of her many readers, Elizabeth Jane Howard has been producing prose of a subtlety, intelligence and feeling that has rarely faltered during the 50 years she has been writing. She is able to successfully straddle the disparate worlds of the
In the third novel of England's Cazalet family, Elizabeth Howard moves through the dark, middle days of World War II to May 8, 1945, VE Day. Along the way, her beloved characters painfully come of age: Polly and Clary fall for the same man, Louise suffers
Getting it right was not Gavin Lamb's forte, at least where human relationships were concerned. In the hairdressing salon, he was an expert with the tools of his trade. But back at home with his mother, it was quite a different matter. He didn't know how
"Elizabeth and Her German Garden," a novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, was popular and frequently reprinted during the early years of the 20th century. "Elizabeth and Her German Garden" is a year's diary written by Elizabeth about her experiences learning gar
