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The Long View

English

By (author): Elizabeth Jane Howard

With an introduction by Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall.

Originally published in 1956, The Long View is Elizabeth Jane Howard's uncannily authentic portrait of one marriage and one woman. Written with exhilarating wit, it is a gut-wrenching account of the birth and death of a relationship.


In 1950s London, Antonia Fleming faces the prospect of a life lived alone. Her children are now adults; her husband Conrad, a domineering and emotionally complex man, is now a stranger.

As Antonia looks towards her future, the novel steadily moves backwards in time. Tracing Antonia's relationship with Conrad, she comes to its beginning in the 1920s through years of mistake and motherhood, dreams and war.

One of his secret pleasures was the loading of social dice against himself. He did not seem for one moment to consider the efforts made by kind or sensitive people to even things up: or if such notions ever occurred to him, he would have observed them with detached amusement, and reloaded more dice.

Observant and heartbreaking, The Long View is as extraordinary as it is timeless.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 340g
  • Dimensions: 131 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 25 Feb 2016
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781447272243

About Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard was the author of fifteen highly acclaimed novels including the five volumes of The Cazalet Chronicles as well as After Julius Falling Getting It Right Love All and Odd Girl Out. The Cazalet Chronicles The Light Years Marking Time Confusion Casting Off and All Change have become established as modern classics and have been adapted for a major BBC television series and for BBC Radio 4. She had one child Nicola and married three times lastly to fellow author Sir Kingsley Amis. In 2000 she was awarded a CBE in the Queens Birthday Honours List and in 2002 Macmillan published her autobiography Slipstream. She died aged ninety at home in Suffolk on 2 January 2014.

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