Marking Time

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UK Kirkus review

This is the second in the series chronicling the fortunes of the Cazalet family. The carefree years of childhood games, large family gatherings and lavish parties, so memorably described in the first volume, Light Years, are over, the windows at Home Place have been blacked out and food is scarce. The children are growing up and now take centre stage: Louise, who is tired of being taught nothing more than how to be the lady of the house and wants to be an actress; Clary, the aspiring writer, who keeps a list of things people never talk about - like going to the lavatory and menstruation; and Polly, who is determined to do something to end the war, but is not quite sure what. Full of insight and wit, Marking Time is a story of how the unfamiliar experiences of adolescence are heightened by war, when daydreams make humdrum routine bearable but when nothing can dispel the fear of war and the sadness of death. The place to start to appreciate the full poignancy of the superb follow-up. (Kirkus UK)

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