The new instalment of the Cazalet Chronicles with Louisa Young

_THE GOLDEN HOURS_ is the brilliant new instalment in the beloved _Cazalet Chronicles_, started by ELIZABETH JANE HOWARD and now continued by bestselling author - and Elizabeth Jane Howard's niece - LOUISA YOUNG.It's Christmas, 1962, and the Cazalet family are gathering to celebrate.

With the family's beloved Home Place long sold, Polly and Gerald have offered up their rambling stately pile, Fakenham Hall, to cousins, parents, siblings and children.The old guard - Hugh, Edward, Rupert and Rachel - look on as the England they knew and understood fades from view.

Cousins Polly, Louise and Clary, now all on the brink of turning forty, are struggling to balance the demands of midlife with their personal desires - however secret.

And then there are the young - a new generation growing up in a society on the cusp of real change.In Louisa Young's spellbinding new novel, familiar faces will reappear, newcomers will be introduced, and the legacy of the Cazalets will continue on into the swinging sixties . . ._The Golden Hours_ is the sixth novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard and Louisa Young's Cazalet Chronicles.

Read from the beginning of the series: _The Light Years_, _Marking Time_, Confusion, _Casting_ _Off_, and _All Change_._Louisa Young is a writer and songwriter, a former journalist, a Londoner, and 'a masterly storyteller', according to The Washington Post.

Her twelve novels include the award-winning My Dear I Wanted to Tell You trilogy, which Elizabeth Jane Howard called 'a triumph'.

She has also written memoir - You Left Early, a True Story of Love and Alcohol; cultural history - The Book of the Heart; and biography - A Great Task of Happiness: The Life of Kathleen Scott (who was Captain Scott's widow, Louisa's grandmother and Jane's mother-in-law)._