How to follow the Cazalet Chronicles?

[SevenKingsMustDie]

Just that really - I am 3/4 of the way through All Change, and already feel bereft. I have loved this family and I cannot believe I won’t know anything more about them…😢

Any suggestions of how to fill the void?

No advice, only sympathy. I loved those books. It’s amazing how involved you can get with the characters.

How about trying a different series and falling love with a new set of characters? The only early 20th-century British equivalents I can think of are:

Evelyn Waugh: Sword of Honour
Ford Madox Ford: Parade’s End
Powell: Dance to the Music of Time

Get the audiobooks!

Start from the beginning again. You’ll pick up extra nuances that you missed first time around.

Have you read any Delderfield? Try the Swann books!

You might enjoy Rumer Godden’s China Court.

Also anything by Cynthia Harrod Eagles. Morland books (about 36 of them!), Ashmore Castle, Kirov trilogy, the WW1 series - all excellent.

Barbara Taylor Bradford Woman of Substance - about 6 books there
Elizabeth Howard
Norah Lofts
Pamela Belle’s Wintercombe books

Cynthia Harrod Eagles Morland Dynasty series. 37 books following a family from before the English civil war up to WW2.
That will keep you going!

Just to let you know that Elizabeth Jane Howard’s niece, Louisa Young, is writing further Cazalet books. The first one is due out next year. I adore The Cazalet Chronicles so on the one hand I’m delighted there will be more, but on the other hand I don’t want the series ruined if they’re no good.

www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/15/elizabeth-jane-howard-niece-louisa-young-cazalet-chronicles-books

Oh, thank you all so much!

Great ideas - most of which I haven’t read. I shall fill up my list 😊

Interesting that there is to be more in the series written by EJH’s niece - I feel the same mixed emotions!

Diary of a Country Lady is set at the sane tune and is really funny.

I’ve just placed a library hold on The Founding, which looks like the first in the Morland Dynasty series. Looking forward to it!

Great thread op.

I bought the Cazalet Chronicles tv series on a DVD the other month. Keep forgetting to watch it. Also don’t have an easily accessible cd player.

Family and Friends by Anita Brookner.

Another interesting read is Elizabeth Jane Howard’s autobiography Slipstream. There is a lot of herself and her family in The Cazalets.

You will love it …enjoy binge reading the next 36!

Oh, I didn’t know there was a TV series - has anyone watched it?

Just watching it now! Only available on DVD though.

It’s good. Only starts at 1937 though. Hugh Bonneville is in it.

Not as good as Downtown though.!

I love the TV series but it only covers the first two books unfortunately. I would love someone to do a full series covering all the books.

Definitely this also.

id also recommend Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life and A God in Ruins for similar timeframe and family-chronicle style narrative.

I’m very tempted - if it wasn’t for the fact I’ve had to order them all one at a time from libraries across the county and they’ve sometimes taken weeks to arrive, I probably would have already started!

I loved Howard's book 'the long view' - doesn't fill that desire for a long series of books but it does fill the desire for her excellent writing.

I am going to look up many of these other books, thanks for the thread!

Try her other books? I didn't really get on with After Julius or The Long View, but the others are worth a shot.
I'm halfway between intrigued and appalled at her niece taking up the Cazalet thread.

The Poldark books are a fantastic family saga. I loved them as much as the Cazalets (although I skipped a lot of stuff about steam engines and mining...)

There’s also the biography of EJH and her novel Falling. The novel is fairly chilling but reading the real-life events that inspired it was one of the most terrifying things I have ever read - I can’t exactly remember why but I don’t want to read it again to find out.