Almost finished Cazalet Chronicles ... what next?

[Bubblegoose]

Someone started a thread about these books a few weeks ago and I downloaded them and got hooked straight away. Am almost finished with the fourth book and wondering what I can read next that's in a similar vein?

have you read the new one? 'All Change'

IMO there isn't anything quite like them, but try...

The Balkans Trilogy by Olivia Manning
The Happy Prisoner by Monica Dickens and perhaps Mariana by the same author
According to Mark by Penelope Lively
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Raj Quartet by Paul Scott

snice I read some pretty awful reviews and think I will give it a miss.

Thanks joan! I will look up all of those.

also try

Atonement
maybe Theatre Shoes by Noel Streatfeild

actually i should have asked you what you liked about the Cazalets! I was going for things that to me had a similar 'feel', not necessarily what you mean by a similar vein.

Joan, good question. I like the family saga aspect, and the storylines, which aren't too taxing. I liked the wartime setting and the Englishness. Atonement is the only one I've read out of your list, and that is definitely in the right ballpark.

Life after life by Kate Atkinson?

Life after life by Kate Atkinson?

there is another new book in the series.
of the cazalets.

l like Susan howatch and the starbridge novels which link up, really interesting about the church and different characters.

Try the spoils of time trilogy by Penny Vincenzi- I can read these over & over!

RF Delderfield - Horseman Riding By, Trilogy
Rebecca West - The Fountain overflows (also a trilogy)

I agree with the Spoils of Time actually - mostly don't like Penny Vincenzi, and these are definitely closer to bonkbuster territory than "literary" fiction, but she does actually seem to have done a decent amount of research for these and I really enjoyed them (though would say the third one is weaker).

Not keen on the Starbridge ones - the men are all spiritual supermen and the women are passive simpering handmaidens.

I don't think the fifth one is as good as the first and second but if you have read numbers 1 to 4 you have to read 5!

Whiteoak Chronicles- Mazo De La Roche