The second volume of the cozy saga about the Casalet family. The year is 1939. How to stay on your feet when the familiar world begins to collapse, loved ones become strangers, and inevitable catastrophe approaches? Each member of the Casalet family carefully guards their secrets, makes mistakes, makes difficult choices, but undoubtedly maintains balance in their characteristic aristocratic manner. "It's hard to believe that 'The Casalets' were written in the 1990s: they seem to be the same age as 'The Forsyte Saga'. Elizabeth Jane Howard writes without modern sensationalism: restrained, with dry, timeless British humor, and in such a way that the family story she tells feels both pleasantly old-fashioned and surprisingly relevant." — Anastasia Zavozova