I love the jacket on Elizabeth Jane Howard's All Change, the fifth of her Cazalet Chronicles, which I've started today and am greatly enjoying.
The design is by Alice Tait, and do click there to see more of her work including covers for Jane Gardam's The People on Privilege Hill and Elizabeth Jenkins's The Tortoise and the Hare*.
Helpfully, All Change includes a family tree to remind us how the Cazalet characters are related to one another, and the endpapers are Merton, a William Morris wallpaper design, so this is a handsome book.
I will be interested to know what you thought of this book which I read just before Christmas after re-reading the first 4 Cazalet novels.
Posted by: Alice C | 22 January 2014 at 11:31 PM
Gosh, it's years since I read any EJH but you got me at 'fifth' - I love a saga! Will have to look these up and begin at the beginning... ;)
Posted by: Swissrose | 23 January 2014 at 08:52 AM
So enthusiastic, I meant to say how appealing it looks, visually...
Posted by: Swissrose | 23 January 2014 at 08:53 AM
I've just finished reading all of the books in the Cazalets series. It's wonderful reading - the kind of characters and writing that grow on you the more you read about them.
Posted by: Lina Baines | 23 January 2014 at 11:44 AM
Lovely reading, I finished the 5th this week and cried.
Posted by: Chris | 23 January 2014 at 09:05 PM
It's lovely, and do give the books a try.
Posted by: Cornflower | 23 January 2014 at 09:23 PM
I haven't had time for a re-read so am just picking up the threads.
Posted by: Cornflower | 23 January 2014 at 09:23 PM
I'm certainly enjoying being back with them.
Posted by: Cornflower | 23 January 2014 at 09:25 PM
Aw!
Posted by: Cornflower | 23 January 2014 at 09:25 PM
pity we poor Americans, waiting for it to come out here....read "Slipstream" last week instead - thanks for your recommendation.
Posted by: Dixie Lee | 25 January 2014 at 03:09 AM
I was disappointed with the cover design after the originals (I have all the previous four in hardback with dust jackets) but I have warmed to it, even though it's nothing like the originals and really looks totally out of place next to them. But I do love the Morris end papers. I don't think the writing is quite up to the four originals, but then dear EJH was approaching 90 when she was writing this fifth and final book, and perhaps all had been said about the Cazalets ... I do think she didn't intend to resurrect them when she had finished Casting Off. But I loved it, and am sorry that not only will there be no more Cazalets but no more of anything from the pen of EJH.
Posted by: Margaret Powling | 25 January 2014 at 09:20 PM
This may be of no interest to you, Dixie Lee, but the UK Book Depository has it at a reasonable price and will ship it free (worldwide).
Posted by: Cornflower | 26 January 2014 at 11:54 AM
I wonder whether, vis-a-vis the earlier books, the cover was meant to reflect the "All Change" of the title.
Posted by: Cornflower | 26 January 2014 at 11:56 AM
I've heard of this series but not read it. Love the cover.
Posted by: Mystica | 26 January 2014 at 02:21 PM
Very much worth trying, Mystica.
Posted by: Cornflower | 26 January 2014 at 02:58 PM