The Golden Hours is the brilliant new instalment in the beloved Cazalet Chronicles, started by Elizabeth Jane Howard and now continued by bestselling author – and Elizabeth Jane Howard’s niece – Louisa Young.
It’s Christmas, 1962, and the Cazalet family are gathering to celebrate. With the family’s beloved Home Place long sold, Polly and Gerald have offered up their rambling stately pile, Fakenham Hall, to cousins, parents, siblings and children.
The old guard – Hugh, Edward, Rupert and Rachel – look on as the England they knew and understood fades from view. Cousins Polly, Louise and Clary, now all on the brink of turning forty, are struggling to balance the demands of midlife with their personal desires – however secret. And then there are the young – a new generation growing up in a society on the cusp of real change.
In Louisa Young’s spellbinding new novel, familiar faces will reappear, newcomers will be introduced, and the legacy of the Cazalets will continue on into the swinging sixties . . .
The Golden Hours is the sixth novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard and Louisa Young’s Cazalet Chronicles. Read from the beginning of the series: The Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion, CastingOff, and All Change.
I’m overjoyed to have this new volume in the Cazalet Chronicles. The Golden Hours is a wonderful read - Nina Stibbe, bestselling author of Love, Nina
Effortlessly authentic, pitch-perfect, funny, sexy and heart-wrenching, I can't remember the last time I lost myself so deliciously in a novel! - Julie Myerson, author of Something Might Happen
A book full of pleasures - Susie Boyt, author of Loved and Missed
Magnificent – a sweeping, arresting continuation of a dearly beloved series, and a majestic tribute to Elizabeth Jane Howard - Stacey Halls, bestselling author of The Familiars
A formidable task to undertake, Louisa Young has triumphed. The Golden Hours is so beautifully written and emotionally acute, it had me enraptured. The Cazalets live again, summoned into being by the surest and cleverest of authors - Elizabeth Buchan, author of Bonjour, Sophie
The Golden Hours is quite simply marvellous. By some magic, Louisa Young has acquired Elizabeth Jane Howard's touch. It seemed impossible that I would love these Cazalets as much as I love the originals, but I honestly do - Christobel Kent, author of The Loving Husband
Louisa Young is the great chronicler of romantic love and the pain of its loss - Linda Grant, author of When I Lived in Modern Times, on Twelve Months and a Day
Young possesses in abundance emotional conviction, pace and imaginative energy - The Guardian
The Cazalets have earned an honoured place among the great saga families - Sunday Telegraph
Maybe my favourite books ever - Marian Keyes, bestselling author of My Favourite Mistake, on The Cazalet Chronicles
