Falling

By Elizabeth Jane Howard

From, Elizabeth Jane Howard, the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Falling is a haunting portrait of romantic manipulation.

'A novel which, although full of subtle touches, is as unputdownable as any thriller' – The Times

Harry Kent is a sensitive man in late middle age, a reader and a thinker, without means perhaps but not without charm.

Daisy has recovered from her unhappy past by learning to be self-sufficient, and viewing trust as a weakness. But there is still a part of her that yearns to be cared for once more.

It is this part that Henry sees, and with dedicated and calculated patience he works at her defences. So despite all attempts to resist his attentions, Daisy finds herself falling under Henry's spell . . .

'Her talent seemed so effervescent, so unstoppable, that there was no predicting where it might take her' – Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Release date: Mar 4, 2011
• ISBN: 9780330527217

Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard was the author of fifteen highly acclaimed novels. The Cazalet Chronicles – The Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion, Casting Off and All Change – have become established as modern classics and have been adapted for a major BBC television series and for BBC Radio 4. In 2002 Macmillan published Elizabeth Jane Howard's autobiography, Slipstream. In that same year she was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. She died, aged 90, at home in Suffolk on 2 January 2014.

Reviews for Falling

[starbox_2 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

"Give me the woman and I would fall in love with her"By sally tarbox on 23 April 2018Format: Kindle EditionAn unputdownable read, told in alternate chapters between Henry - poor, charming (I envisaged him as something of a Nigel Havers), living on a canal boat and desperately seeking any woman who can provide an easy life for him - and Daisy, a writer, vulnerable after two failed marriages, but with a comfortable lifestyle...While Daisy's chapters are narrated in the third person, Henry tells his own; he's certainly rather a cad...but is he always an entirely reliable narrator? As his apparently selfless adoration of his employer (he gets taken on as her gardener) starts to break down the barriers she has built around her feelings, the reader begins to fear for her future life...Very very compulsive writing!

[karensaville · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Story of an ageing woman who lives alone. An elderly gardener comes into her life and woos her, she falls in love with him and is hopeful of a loving relationship after a disappointing life with previous partners. He turns out to be a con man. Very plodding and a bit depressing although it was made into a television drama which was interesting to watch. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.