Elizabeth Jane Howard

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Elizabeth Jane Howard, the British novelist who was born a hundred years ago this year in 1923. Raised in a privileged but unhappy family her early experiences would inform much of her writing through her long career. Despite winning the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her first novel The Beautiful Visit in 1950 - it wasn’t until the second half of her life that her fictional quintet The Cazalet Chronicles would bring commercial acclaim. Her private life; three marraiges, including the writer Kingsley Amis, affairs with Laurie Lee and Cecil Day Lewis often overshadow her books, but on the programme today, Elizabeth Day is joined by biographer, Artemis Cooper author of Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence, Howard's editor Maria Rejt, and the author of The Familiars and Mrs England, Stacey Halls, to take a closer look at the qualities of her writing. Book List – Sunday 23 July and Thursday 27 July The Beautiful Visit by Elizabeth Jane Howard The Long View by Elizabeth Jane Howard Slipstream by Elizabeth Jane Howard Confusion by Elizabeth Jane Howard Mr Wrong by Elizabeth Jane Howard The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard Marking Time by Elizabeth Jane Howard Confusion by Elizabeth Jane Howard Casting Off by Elizabeth Jane Howard All Change by Elizabeth Jane Howard Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence by Artemis Cooper One Fat Englishman by Kingsley Amis My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante After You’d Gone by Maggie O’Farrell The Distance Between Us by Maggie O’Farrell This Must be the Place by Maggie O’Farrell