Elizabeth Jane Howard (EJH), one of my favorite writers, is someone truly deserving of wider recognition for her extraordinary literary talent. With this memoir, she has shown herself to be unflinchingly honest about herself, her family, friends and acquaintances, as well as life as she came to know...
bookshelves: winter-20142015, published-1972, chick-lit, fradio, radio-4x, under-500-ratings Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from January 02 to 17, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00769kxDescription: Howard's fifth novel is the story of a marriage that has lasted a decade and ha...
bookshelves: winter-20142015, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, britain-england, published-1975, under-20 Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from January 02 to 09, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pqdsc Mr Wrong Part 1: 1/5 Meg comes to London to buy a second-hand car, but all is ...
"Falling" is not only a novel that delves into the anatomy of a seduction. It is also masterful in that it gives the reader access into both the inner and outer lives of the two people involved: Henry Kent and Daisy Langrish. Elizabeth Jane Howard fleshes them out with the skill that Vermeer, Goya, ...
"Falling" is not only a novel that delves into the anatomy of a seduction. It is also masterful in that it gives the reader access into both the inner and outer lives of the two people involved: Henry Kent and Daisy Langrish. Elizabeth Jane Howard fleshes them out with the skill that Vermeer, Goya, ...
Marking Time (Cazalet Chronicles #2) Fradio>R4DramatisationSeries> #2 of 4 Winter 2013under 500 ratingspub 1991Hist Fic>WWIISussexFamiliesEpicFOR: Laura, Carey Wanda, Overbylass, Jema: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01qlhjc/The_Cazalets_Marking_Time_Episode_1/BBC BLURB: by Elizabeth Jane Howa...
A teenage near-romance has the chance of being rekindled twenty years later. Twenty years too late? (This review gives away no more than is in the books's blurb, though the quotes section at the end is a little less subtle.)It is poignant and painful, occasionally funny, but never sentimental or sac...
Three stories by Aickman and three by Howard. This was Aickman's first foray into print and Elizabeth Jane Howard went on to become an accomplished writer in the non-weird vein, I think historical fiction. Opinions vary as to how much collaboration there was between the two authors but the best li...
I somehow missed writing this one up, so I’m backdating it on August 8. A piece of trivia: I hadn’t realized that Howard was married to Amis. Interesting marriage that would be.Now for the stories: “disturbing” comes to mind when you read the first one, and stays with you. “Mr. Wrong” is about ...
After reading the engrossing and well-written Cazalet series, which is the saga of a family before, during, and after WWII, I wanted to know more about the author. I enjoyed reading about her own life, which she used as a model for the series.