Author: elizabethjanehoward

An aging con man sets his sights on a twice-burned, sixtyish woman in this suspenseful novel from the author of the bestselling Cazalet Chronicles. Harry Kent is the caretaker of a houseboat on the English canal where he lives, subsisting on a nightly dinner of tinned steak and kidney pudding. Although love has been the single most important influence in his life and he believes he knows what … believes he knows what the other sex wants, he is separated from his wife and has left behind a string of other failed relationships. Playwright Daisy Langrish has just bought a…

Fans of Downton Abbey will devour this “dazzling historical reconstruction” (Booker Prize–winning author Penelope Fitzgerald). Experience World War II–era Britain in this “vivid and compulsively readable” family saga (The Sunday Telegraph).