Elizabeth Jane Howard's niece Louisa Young to write next three Cazalet Chronicles for Mantle

Mantle has secured three new novels in the Cazalet Chronicles by Louisa Young, Elizabeth Jane Howard’s niece and award-winning author. 

Mantle publisher Maria Rejt acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) in an exclusive submission from Ariella Feiner at United Agents. The first book, The Golden Hours, will be published in hardback in September 2026 as a lead title. Translation rights are handled by United Agents and have so far have been sold to France (Editions de La Table Ronde), Italy (Fazi) and The Netherlands (Atlas Contact).

All five existing volumes of the Cazalet Chronicles are published by Mantle, with Rejt acting as editor on Elizabeth Jane Howard’s last instalment, All Change, which was published in 2013—a year before her death in 2014.

The original books follow the Cazalet family from 1937 through to Christmas 1958. With about 50 named and recognisable members of the family and their immediate circle alive at the end of the fifth volume, Young is picking up the family in Christmas 1962 and taking them through the next two decades.

Young has published 15 books, 10 of them novels. Her work has been shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year Award, the Wellcome Book Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award. She has been longlisted for the Orange Prize and has won the Galaxy Audiobook of the Year Award. She has been published in 35 languages and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Rejt said: "I was so very lucky and privileged to have worked with Jane, editing and publishing her final novel in the Cazalet Chronicles, All Change. Reading Louisa’s pages, I felt reunited with a world which I cherish so much. Louisa is achieving something brilliant, in a voice completely fresh and yet one that I am sure will thrill Jane’s many existing readers."

Young said: "The world Jane observed and wrote about has not stopped with her observation of it. The characters are so alive still; the developments of their society continue. And, like many others, I want more... Jane looked at the huge effects of the war through the microcosm of her peoples’ everyday lives; in these books I will observe the immense social change of the ’60s and ’70s through the lives of individuals. How will they cope as modern England shifts and forms around them?"

Ann Evans, Elizabeth Jane Howard’s literary agent and executor, said: "Louisa comes from the same family background as Jane and has lived with the Cazalet characters all her life.  She is a wonderful writer and is uniquely qualified to continue the series."