num_pages: 452
description: Home Place, Sussex, 1939. The English family at war . . .The sunlit days of childish games and familyn meals are over, as the shadows of war roll in to cloud the lives of one English family.At Home Place, the windows are blacked out and food is becoming scarce as a new generation of Cazalets takes up the story. Louise dreams of being a great actress, Clary is an aspiring writer, while Polly, is burdened with knowledge and the need to share it.
language: English
title: Marking Time
titlecomplete: Marking Time (Cazalet Chronicles, #2)
genres: Fiction, Historical, Family, War, British Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, World War II
ratings_count: 8439
places: Sussex, England
series: Cazalet Chronicles
publisher: Pan MacMillan