The Sea Change - Elizabeth Jane Howard

The Sea Change

By: Elizabeth Jane Howard

Paperback | 1 September 2015

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Emmanuel is a famous playwright. Lillian is his sickly and embittered wife. They have never fully buried the memory of their dead daughter, Sarah. Rich but discontented, they flit from capital to capital in the company of their hero-worshipping young manager; nomads on the international airlines.

Then Alberta, straight from an English vicarage and the pages of Jane Austen, is appointed as Emmanuel's secretary. This prim and utterly delightful figure works on the 'family' like milk on a disordered stomach. One by one the leopards change their spots ...

'The characterization is the triumph of this book. Miss Howard has a exquisite sense of place' Observer
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The characterization is the triumph of this book. Miss Howard has a exquisite sense of place. * Observer *

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