The Sea Change

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Sea Change
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Elizabeth Jane Howard
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:432
Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 132
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9781447272250
ClassificationsDewey:823.914
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Pan Macmillan
Imprint Picador
Publication Date 2 July 2015
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Emmanuel is a famous playwright. Lillian is his sickly and embittered wife. They have never fully buried the memory of their dead daughter, Sarah. Rich but discontented, they flit from capital to capital in the company of their hero-worshipping young manager; nomads on the international airlines. Then Alberta, straight from an English vicarage and the pages of Jane Austen, is appointed as Emmanuel's secretary. This prim and utterly delightful figure works on the 'family' like milk on a disordered stomach. One by one the leopards change their spots ... 'The characterization is the triumph of this book. Miss Howard has a exquisite sense of place' Observer

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.

Reviews

The characterization is the triumph of this book. Miss Howard has a exquisite sense of place. * Observer *