Having just read through almost all of the reviews here, it is apparent that there are a few folks for whom the Cazalet Chronicle (of which Light Years is the first of five books) is a miss, but for many more of us it is a big hit. I can think of no other books I have enjoyed as much--and I read a lot of books.
I first discovered Light Years in the early 1990s, shortly after it was written, while visiting Hatchard's book store in London. A year or two later, again in London, I found Marking Time, the second book. Needless to say, the books were not generally available in the U.S. (Jeff Bezos was not to launch Amazon, nor Amazon UK, for another couple of years). Thanks to a friend traveling to Europe, I did succeed in getting my hands on Confusion and Casting Off, the 3rd and 4th volumes, which seemed to be the end. Not. Just before Howard died in 2014 at the age of 90, and more than twenty years after the previously final volume had been published, the 5th Cazalet, All Change, was released. It was such a joy to have another Cazalet, I read it all in one day.
It is interesting to note that the Cazalet books are highly autobiographical (see Howard's autobiography, Slipstream) and that her stepson, Martin Amis, was instrumental in her deciding to write the series.
I have lent or given the Cazalet Chronicles to a dozen or more friends, all of whom enjoyed the books. Howard wrote at least ten other novels before she embarked on the Cazalets, including one which starts at the end and moves to the beginning. If not quite the joy of the Cazalets, they are all good reads, too.
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