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Marking Time

✍ Scribed by Elizabeth Jane Howard


Publisher
Open Road Media
Year
2016
Tongue
English
Weight
465 KB
Category
Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


For fans of Downton Abbey, the second volume of the critically acclaimed Cazalet saga takes readers into the lives of an extended British family and their devoted retinue

It is 1939, and Hitler has just invaded Poland. The exigencies of wartime will force the Cazalets to make difficult choices as the older children are evacuated from London and settled in Home Place, their longtime Sussex summer estate.

Narrated primarily through the voices of three Cazalet cousinsβ€”sixteen-year-old Louise and fourteen-year-old Polly and Claryβ€”Marking Time details the continuing saga of their fathers. With the outbreak of war, Edward is determined to do his part for England. Hugh, crippled in World War I, must sit back and watch other men fight for their country, including his brother Rupert, who enlists and goes missing in action.

The Cazalets' story plays out against the greater drama unfolding on the world stage. Three...


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