About this Event
Join Louisa Young, bestselling author - and niece of Elizabeth Jane Howard, on Wednesday 18th November at 7pm, as we celebrate the magnificent new instalment, in the epic and much beloved Cazalet Chronicles, The Golden Hours.
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
‘THE GOLDEN HOURS is so beautifully written and emotionally acute, it had me enraptured. The Cazalets live again, summonsed into being by the surest and cleverest of authors’ Elizabeth Buchan,
‘THE GOLDEN HOURS is quite simply marvellous.’ Christobel Kent,
‘Magnificent - a sweeping, arresting continuation of a dearly beloved series, and a majestic tribute to Elizabeth Jane Howard’ Stacey Halls,
‘Louisa Young is the great chronicler of romantic love and the pain of its loss’ Linda Grant
’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
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Event venue & nearby stays
Waterstones, 128 Princes Street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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