Love All

A novel of love and its fragility, and the strength of family love, from the lauded, bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles. The late 1960s. For Persephone 'Percy' Plover - the daughter of distant and neglectful parents - the innocent days of childhood are long past. Newly single, unemployed and living with her aunt, Percy finds herself drifting. When her aunt, a garden designer, is offered a few weeks of work in the West Country, dealing with the terraces and glasshouses of a once-beautiful manor house in Melton, Percy decides to join her. And Jack, the new owner of Melton House, recently divorced and desperate to avoid loneliness, may find a few things to keep her busy . . . Elizabeth Jane Howard's renowned wit and perception shines through in this touching account of tangled lives and loves. 'Graceful, moving . . . Howard's elegant prose, keen eye for detail and ability to make the reader care about her characters are second to none' Daily Express From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Love All is a heartfelt story of love and adulthood in the 1960s. 'Graceful, moving' – Daily Express The late 1960s. For Persephone Plover, the daughter of distant and neglectful parents, the innocent, isolated days of childhood are long past. Now she must deal with the emotions of an adult world. Meanwhile in Melton, in the West Country, Jack Curtis – a self-made millionaire – has employed Persephone's aunt. A garden designer in her sixties, she is to deal with the terraces and glasshouses of the once beautiful local manor house – one that he has acquired at vast expense. He also has plans to start an arts festival, as a means to avoid the loneliness of divorce. Also in Melton are the Musgrove siblings, Thomas and Mary, whose parents…