Cazalet type book?

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I'm feeling nostalgic - always gets me this time of year! Please can anyone recommend anything with a similar vibe to the Cazalet Chronicles?

RF Delderfield’s The Dreaming Suburb and its sequel The Avenue Goes to War.

The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley

Thank you both :). I've read all of those but not for years. Might be worth digging them out again.

Maybe the Spoils of Time series by Penny Vincenzi?

The Cavendon novels by Barbara Taylor Bradford are in a similar style

Have you read the Wideacre Trilogy by Philippa Gregory? It’s a while since I read it but I loved it.

LP Hartley The Eustace and Hilda trilogy

Also two books by Emma Smith Maiden's Trip and The Far Cry.

Elizabeth Goudge

1.The Bird in the Tree
2.The herb of Grace
3.The Heart of the Family

Sorry, I cannot remember what the trilogy is called!

I love the Horseman Riding By trilogy, and the Swann family saga by Delderfield too.

The summer house party by Caro Fraser. It is a bit of an ode to the Cazalet chronicles and so inevitably isn’t as good but very easy read. There is a follow up book food.

I loved the Patteran trilogy by Patricia Wendorf.
The books are (In chronological order):

Larksleve
Blanche
Bye Bye Blackbird

@gailforce2 its the Eliot’s of Damerosehay trilogy. I’m re-reading it now and I heartily second the recommendation!

I second this.

Depends exactly what the Cazalets do for you.

Olivia Manning - the Balkan Trilogy and the Levant Trilogy
Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway
Dorothy Sayers - Strong Poison and Murder Must Advertise
K M Peyton - pretty much anything but if you didn't read the Flambards series when younger I think it stands up, especially The Edge of the Cloud, but also the Pennington books
Somerset Maugham can give Howard vibes sometimes.

Other RF Delderfield books set in Devon just after the boer war. The Green Gauntlet and two more. Excellent series.
Also Catrin Collier Hearts of Gold series. Set in Wales from 1930’s on.

Some great rec's here. I would add Susan Howatch's Family Sagas: Penmarric, Cashelmara, the Wheel of Fortune, The Rich are Different and the sequel, Sins of the Father. The sagas are loosely based on Royal dynasties. For example, Penmarric is about 3 generations over the course of 60 years from Victorian times to the 2nd World War who have a historic mansion in Cornwall but the trajectory of the story is loosely based on the Plantagenets.

Try Dorothy Whipple if you can find her- although she wrote earlier than Howard the settings are similar ie. pre, between or post-war. High Wages, the Priory and They Knew Mr Knight are some of hers.

Great shout @Debrathom Persephone books publish a good few of hers.

I'd also recommend RF Delderfield's - Swann Family Saga too.

Yes I absolutely loved her books

The Starbridge? series is also excellent

Wish she'd write some more

I loved the Herries Chronicle when I was a teenager, by Hugh Walpole. I must have read it through about 3 times, but I dare not go back to it in case I’m disillusioned. Then of course there’s The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy

Would second (or third) the suggestion of Dorothy Whipple.

If you want to try something more recent, The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn might be worth trying - similar sort of 'big house' vibes.

Have you tried anything else by Howard? I'm currently reading and enjoying The Beautiful Visit by her.