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Books if you loved the Cazelet Chronicles

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Freddorika · 28/02/2017 11:22

I wish I hadn't read them so that I could read them again Sad

Can anyone recommend anything?

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SatsukiKusakabe · 28/02/2017 16:20

I didn't get on with the Cazelets, but I did really enjoy Life After Life, and thought it very much written in a similar style and about the same era. Just a bit more going on for me, but would recommend if you haven't read it already.

Clawdy · 28/02/2017 13:58

Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase is in a similar vein, and a wonderful read. So is Aren't We Sisters? by Patricia Ferguson.

Nan0second · 28/02/2017 13:03

In farleigh field is what I'm reading currently and definitely has a cazalet feel to it!

loinnir · 28/02/2017 13:02

Persephone books have a wide range of authors writing around the time period the Cazalet's is set in. My favourite "Persephone" author is Dorothy Whipple who wrote fantastically well observed family stories.

Susan Howatch wrote big, thumper family sagas such as Penmarric, Wheel of Fortune and the Rich are Different.

Life after Life by Kate Atkinson is set in WW2

The Dreaming Suburb and The Avenue Goes to War (sequel) by RF Delderfield are set before and during WW2 and are about residents in a street in a leafy suburb of the oustskirts of London - a mix of lower middle class families and a working class family. They are not posh like the Cazalet's but there are similar themes.