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Casting Off is the long-awaited final volume of The Cazalet Chronicle, Elizabeth Jane Howard's superb quartet of novels that chronicles the lives of an extended English family before, during and after the Second World War.It is July 1945: VE Day has been celebrated; Japan has yet to surrender. Polly, Clary and Louise - girls on the brink of adolescence when the chronicle began in 1937 - are now grown up. Painfully, they discover for themselves those things that adults never seemed to talk about - sexual passion, loneliness and loss. Polly believes herself still in love with Archie Lestrange; Clary mistakes a monstrous ego for a deserving cause; and Louise continues to flounder in a hopeless marriage. Rupert Cazalet, missing in France for several years, returns to find his wife Zoe curiously withdrawn: will their marriage withstand the long parting and the secrets each hides from the other? Edward, still contriving to juggle a wife and a mistress, will be forced to choose between them, while Hugh, estranged from Edward after discovering his duplicity, must finally come to terms with Sybil's death. And what of Archie? Drawn to the centre of the Cazalet's untidy circle, he decides escape may be the only means of survival.Already hailed as a classic, this glorious sequence of novels is a masterpiece of contemporary English fiction. On the one hand it concentrates on individual lives, on the changes wrought by war and the truth - or otherwise - of the human heart. On the other it offers a unique view - at once panoramic and richly detailed - of what was happening at home in England during this most crucial period of our history.
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