Something in disguise - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670656569 ISBN 13: 9780670656561

Synopsis

Mary's second marriage to Colonel Herbert Brown-Lacey is turning out to be a terrible mistake. Her children leave home to escape the Colonel, and his behaviour is beginning to become more and more sinister.

About this title

Book Description:

Something in Disguise follows a family coping with change and the relationships driving it apart from the author of the Cazalet Chronicles.

From the Back Cover:

May's second marriage to Colonel Herbert Browne-Lacey is turning out to be a terrible mistake. Her son, Oliver, leaves home only to drift from one affair to another; his sister Elizabeth follows him, yearning for some kind of secure relationship. While even Alice, the colonel's meek daughter, is driven into marriage to escape her father's sinister behaviour . . .

At once a candid depiction of a post-war family on the cusp of change and a touching love story, Something in Disguise embodies the startling truth, wit and daring that Elizabeth Jane Howard is renowned for.

'Has all Elizabeth Jane Howard's particularly feminine perception . . . yet what lingers in the mind is its delicious funniness' Guardian

'The book is astute, experienced, vulnerable, and it reads with incomparable ease' Kirkus Reviews

About this edition

• ISBN 10: 0670656569
• ISBN 13: 9780670656561
• Binding: Hardcover