Something in Disguise by Elizabeth Jane Howard (English) Paperback Book

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From the lauded, bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles.

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May's second marriage to Colonel Herbert Brown-Lacy is turning out to be a terrible mistake. Her son, Oliver, leaves home only to drift from one affair to another; his sister Elizabeth follows him, yearning for some kind of secure relationship. While even Alice, Herbert's meek daughter, is driven into marriage to escape her father's sinister behaviour ...

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May's second marriage to Colonel Herbert Browne-Lacey is turning out to be a terrible mistake. Her son, Oliver, leaves home only to drift from one affair to another; his sister Elizabeth follows him, yearning for some kind of secure relationship. While even Alice, the colonel's meek daughter, is driven into marriage to escape her father's sinister behaviour . . . At once a candid depiction of a post-war family on the cusp of change and a touching love story, Something in Disguise embodies the startling truth, wit and daring that Elizabeth Jane Howard is renowned for.'Has all Elizabeth Jane Howard's particularly feminine perception . . . yet what lingers in the mind is its delicious funniness' Guardian 'The book is astute, experienced, vulnerable, and it reads with incomparable ease' Kirkus Reviews

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May's second marriage to Colonel Herbert Browne-Lacey is turning out to be a terrible mistake. Her son, Oliver, leaves home only to drift from one affair to another; his sister Elizabeth follows him, yearning for some kind of secure relationship. While even Alice, the colonel's meek daughter, is driven into marriage to escape her father's sinister behaviour . . . At once a candid depiction of a post-war family on the cusp of change and a touching love story, Something in Disguise embodies the startling truth, wit and daring that Elizabeth Jane Howard is renowned for. 'Has all Elizabeth Jane Howard's particularly feminine perception . . . yet what lingers in the mind is its delicious funniness' Guardian 'The book is astute, experienced, vulnerable, and it reads with incomparable ease' Kirkus Reviews

Author Biography

Elizabeth Jane Howard was the author of fourteen highly acclaimed novels. The Cazalet Chronicles - The Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion, Casting Off and All Change - have become established as modern classics and have been adapted for a major BBC television series and most recently for BBC Radio 4. In 2002 Macmillan published Elizabeth Jane Howard's autobiography, Slipstream. In that same year she was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.

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Her talent seemed so effervescent, so unstoppable, that there was no predicting where it might take her -- Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall

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From the lauded, bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles.

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From the lauded, bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles.

Details ISBN144727234X Publisher Pan Macmillan Year 2015 ISBN-10 144727234X ISBN-13 9781447272342 Format Paperback Publication Date 2015-07-02 Author Elizabeth Jane Howard Media Book Audience Age 18 Imprint Picador Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 823.914 Birth 1923 Pages 352 Edition New edition Language English UK Release Date 2015-07-02 Audience General AU Release Date 2015-09-07 NZ Release Date 2015-09-07 We've got this

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