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The Sea Change
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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The Sea Change
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Elizabeth Jane Howard
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:432 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 132 |
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| Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9781447272250
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| Classifications | Dewey:823.914 |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Pan Macmillan
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| Imprint |
Picador
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| Publication Date |
2 July 2015 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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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.
ReviewsThe characterization is the triumph of this book. Miss Howard has a exquisite sense of place. * Observer *
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