The Cazalet Chronicles

[JessyJames]

I've just finished the fifth book in this series and loved them all. Really enjoyed the characterisations and the complex family dynamics.
Can anyone recommend anything similar please?
Thanks.

I cannot recommend but I like them too.
I find these books a comfort read (you know when you feel rubbish and go to bed really early and need a good easy read).

I know exactly what you mean, for me, they were the perfect holiday read!

I have just read the final one on my hols. Bet you were somewhere hot (I was not...)

I am rattling my brains on what may suit as a replacement. I tend to lean to crime series. I like a series... Susan Hill does a crime series with on-going family and their issues.

The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy.

Obviously set in earlier times, but a great long family story.

IMHO even better than the Cazalets - which I loved.

Looked at Amazon and downloaded this Levant Trilogy.
I'll give them a go!

(I was in Mauritius )

Thanks magi, whole Forsyte Saga is free on Amazon. Brilliant!

not sure but I re read the Cazalet saga 1,2,3 and it was like an old friend, love her detailed writing

I also enjoyed Susan Howatch Starbridge novels about the church, some are spooky and they connect. I think Glamorous Powers is first one.

I will check out the Susan Howatch books.
Feel I should look at those, as Ms Howatch lives in the same retirement property as my mother!

Haven'r read The Levant trilogy but did read The Balkan Trilogy (same author) some years ago & really enjoyed it.

Re The Forsyte saga on kindle (free version) This consists of the first 3 books , Man of Property, In Chancery & to let.

There are another 2 books (each having three books within them IYSWIM) that are: A Modernt Comedy & End of The Chapter.

Susan Howatch's Penmarric or Cashelmara. R.F. Dlederfield's The Avenue and The Avenue at War. George Elliot Middlemarch. Dorothy Whipple - They were sisters or The Priory are all great family saga type reads

Mary Wesley or Rosamund Pilcher - I am pretty sure if you liked the Cazalet Chronicles you will like anything by those two.

Mary Wesley

Jumping the Queue (1983)
The Camomile Lawn (1984)
Harnessing Peacocks (1985)
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew (1986)
Not That Sort of Girl (1987)
Second Fiddle (1988)
A Sensible Life (1990)
A Dubious Legacy (1992)
An Imaginative Experience (1994)
Part of the Furniture (1997)

Can't recommend any as these are not usually my type of book

However, got a job lot of books from the book people 10 for £10 to take on holiday and the first in this series was in the collection

I am really enjoying and definitely want to read more of them, do they all continue to be as good??

Sorry no help but I was sat reading it today!!!