Louisa Young presents her novel The Golden Hours, a sequel to the Cazalet Chronicles, in a session of the Autumn Derby Book Festival.
Louisa Young is coming to St Peter's Church on Saturday 14 November to talk about her novel The Golden Hours, which picks up the story of the Cazalet family. It's part of the Autumn Derby Book Festival, so it's one of a few sessions running across the city that autumn.
If you're not familiar with the name, the Cazalets are the family at the centre of the five-volume saga written by Elizabeth Jane Howard. The original series follows them through the Second World War, with the first four books appearing between 1990 and 1995 and the final one in 2013, the year before Howard died. They're all still in print, so it's easy enough to catch up if you've never read them.
Young is Howard's great-niece, and The Golden Hours carries the family story forward. It opens in December 1962, when the Cazalets gather at Fakenham Hall in Norfolk, and then follows them into the Swinging Sixties. It's a bit of a shift in tone from the wartime years of the original series, moving from the austerity of the forties into the changing world of the sixties. The book was listed by The Times as one of forty books not to miss that autumn.
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The session runs from 2:30pm to 3:30pm at St Peter's Church, DE1 1SN, and tickets are £10.
