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Sid Gentle captures Cazalet Chronicles

The Durrells prodco Sid Gentle Films has acquired the rights to Elizabeth Jane Howard’s book series The Cazalet Chronicles.

Sally Woodward Gentle

Sally Woodward Gentle

The five novels are set between the 1930s and the 1950s and detail the lives of three generations of the Cazalet family.

UK-based Sid Gentle Films, founded by drama producer Sally Woodward Gentle, has taken rights to all five books, from The Light Years through to the final novel, All Change, with the intention of telling the family saga over five full seasons. A broadcaster is not yet attached.

Woodward Gentle said: “The novels are totally addictive, with the ability to floor you with their turn of events.

“They are set in the middle of the 20th century but the themes of love, loss, repression, sex and family ties are shot through with 21st century resonance.”

The deal, negotiated by Woodward Gentle and Howard’s agent Ann Evans of literary agency Jonathan Clowes, comes soon after publication of the novelist’s biography Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence, by Artemis Cooper.
  

 

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