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.
As polished, stylish and civilised as her many devotees would expect. -- Julian Barnes Each of these stories may be read again with real pleasure. * Daily Telegraph * Howard has a gift for tilting our sense of reality . . . wry humour and elegant perceptions. * Guardian *