Vick Hope
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Let's move on now to your second book, Shelby book.
I by the way, just to say, that just made me feel amazing.
But we but we now have to move on to another book because I I I would have liked to have just kept feeling like that and kept talking about that.
But we do have to move on to your second book, Shelby book, which is The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howitt.
First published in nineteen ninety and set in nineteen thirty seven, The Light Years is a modern classic of twentieth century English life and is the first novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's extraordinary best selling family saga, The Cazalut Chronicles.
It follows the wealthy but emotionally complicated Cazalette family during the late nineteen thirties, as they gather at their Sussex home and navigate marriages, affairs, childhood, anxieties, and the looming threat of war.
Told from multiple, notably female heavy perspectives, it quietly reveals the tensions beneath upper middle class English family life just before World War II changes everything.
Now you've said that the Cazalets live in your heart.
What is it about the light years and the family, particularly at its centre, that creates such a lasting attachment for you as a reader?
Y you mentioned that um Howard remains largely undiscovered in the US.
Wha why do you think that is and how how could she reach a a broader audience?
Because those women's inner inner lives during this time that is so heavily documented but in a very particular way, very h heroic, um combative way by, you know, male stories is i i it's of interest to everyone, surely.
three weeks.
It's crazy.
you've called um this retelling of World War Two through the eyes of women as as radical, as political, and this importance, focusing on the importance of their interior lives.
How has your writing been influenced by
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