This is a novel of love and its fragility, and the strength of family love, from one of Britain's most beloved authors.It is a beautiful, very moving, melancholic and elegiac novel set in the late 1960s in Melton, a small town in the West Country. The story revolves around a disparate group of people who come together there to establish an arts festival. There is Jack Curtis a self-made millionaire who has bought and refurbished the local stately home, Florence Plover, a garden designer in her sixties whom he has employed and her Anglo-Greek niece, Persephone. There are the Musgrove siblings, Thomas and Mary, whose family originally owned Melton Hall, who run a failing garden nursery nearby and there is Francis Brock, whose sister Celia, Thomas' wife, was tragically killed in a car crash some years previously.This is the story of their intertwining relationships and how they come to love, and not to love each other in different ways and why - a perfect book to curl up and read by the fireside on an autumn afternoon and as satisfying a read as "Brief Encounter" is a film.
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Hardback Editions
October 2008 : Hardback
| Title: Love All Author(s): Elizabeth Jane Howard ISBN: 1-4050-4161-7 / 978-1-4050-4161-4 (UK edition) Publisher: Macmillan Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
October 2008 : Hardback
| Title: Love All Author(s): Elizabeth Jane Howard ISBN: 0-230-71143-X / 978-0-230-71143-3 (UK edition) Publisher: Macmillan Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
August 2009 : Paperback
| Title: Love All Author(s): Elizabeth Jane Howard ISBN: 0-330-42712-1 / 978-0-330-42712-8 (UK edition) Publisher: Pan Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
August 2009 : Perfect Paperback
| Title: Love All Author(s): Elizabeth Jane Howard ISBN: 0-330-47501-0 / 978-0-330-47501-3 (UK edition) Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Ltd Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
Audio Editions
October 2008 : Audio CD
| Title: Love All Author(s): Elizabeth Jane Howard ISBN: 1-4050-4904-9 / 978-1-4050-4904-7 (UK edition) Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
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