AFTER JULIUS – ELIZABETH JANE HOWARD

From the lauded, bestselling author of The Cazalet Chronicles, After Julius is Elizabeth Jane Howard s funny yet touching story of a family brought together yet falling apart. A novel that commands both respect and applause – Sunday Times It is twenty years since Julius died, but his last heroic action still affects the lives of the people he left behind. Emma, his youngest daughter, twenty-seven years old and afraid of men. Cressida, her sister, a war widow, blindly searching for love in her affairs with married men. Esme, Julius s widow, still attractive at fifty-eight, but aimlessly lost in the routine of her perfect home. Felix, Esme s old lover, who left her when Julius died and who is still plagued by guilt for his action. And then there is Dan – an outsider. Throughout a disastrous – and revelatory – weekend in Sussex, the influence of the dead Julius slowly emerges . . . Her talent seemed so effervescent, so unstoppable, that there was no predicting where it might take her – Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall