By Elizabeth Jane Howard. A series of 5 books with the first four published in quick succession between 1990 and 1995 and the last one in 2013 when Jane was 90. About an extended family and their servants from a couple of years before the 2nd World War to a bit more than a decade after it. Many of the characters and what happens to them come from Jane‘s own experiences (she had an eventful life), indeed one of the characters (Louise) is Jane herself. Hard to put down.