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| Novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard dies | Novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard dies |
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| The Cazalet Chronicles author Elizabeth Jane Howard, who was also an actress, model and playwright, has died aged 90. | |
| Her publicist of nearly 40 years, Jackie Graham confirmed to the BBC that she died "peacefully - after a short illness" at home in Bungay, Suffolk this afternoon. | Her publicist of nearly 40 years, Jackie Graham confirmed to the BBC that she died "peacefully - after a short illness" at home in Bungay, Suffolk this afternoon. |
| She was married three times, including to fellow author Sir Kingsley Amis. | |
| Charting the fortunes of the upper-class Cazalet family, the works have been dramatised by BBC TV and Radio 4. | |
| All Change, the fifth book in the series, was published in November 2013. | |
| The highly-acclaimed novels, which also include The Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion and Casting Off, have sold millions of copies worldwide. | |
| She was praised for her deft characterizations of alienated people and her sensitivity to the nuances of family relationships. | |
| At just 19, she married Peter Scott, the son of Captain Scott of the Antarctic and went on to marry twice more, most famously and tempestuously to Kingsley Amis. | |
| Howard originally worked as a theatre actress and was a broadcaster for the BBC during World War II, before taking to writing in the 1950s. | |
| Her other novels include The Beautiful Visit, The Long View, After Julius and Something in Disguise. | |
| Howard also wrote TV scripts for the likes of Upstairs, Downstairs and penned short fiction such as Mr Wrong . She edited The Lover's Companion in 1978. | |
| Speaking to Radio 4's Jim Naughtie for an interview broadcast in December 2013, Howard revealed that she had already started writing another novel. | |
| "It makes me want to get up in the morning, which I don't think I'd want to do much otherwise," said Howard. | |
| "And it's fascinating - the more you think you know about a character, the more you find out about them." | |
| She also spoke about her own bohemian life, affairs and marriages. Naughtie asked: "It was pretty frisky, wasn't it?," to which she replied, "Oh yes it was." | |
| "And, do you know, I wasn't the only frisker," Howard continued. | |
| "Frisky was quite popular in those days. Wars always make people pretty unfaithful, because they feel this might be their last chance." | |
| Naughtie asked if she would have been able to write those books if she had not had those love affairs. | |
| "That's probably true but they might have been even more roaring. Who can tell?" |