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The Light Years

By Elizabeth Jane Howard

A multi-generational saga by this brilliant author, of a British family before, during and after World War II. If I was sent to a desert island with one book this would be my choice…!
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Publish Date: 1990

Every summer, the Cazalet brothers spend two months in the family home in the Sussex countryside with their wives and children, and their unmarried sister Rachel. As they enjoy a seemingly idyllic sojourn, they can’t manage to escape their troubles and anguish.

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