A review by mrsbooknerd
The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard

3.0

I have mixed opinions of this novel. While I enjoyed the fastidious study of the family Cazleat and those around them, and the teeny tiny details that seemed so superfluous but actually ensured that you knew the characters completely and understood their vices, worries and dreams. There wasn't really an overarching plot as such, but each family and each character had their own individual stories which made a generally good book, Even if there seemed no real point to any of it.

I think that was my issue, it was very good but with no direction. The point of the book was solely to describe these characters and not to lead them anywhere. In a romance they would bumble through then fall in love, in a thriller they would investigate and solve a crime... in this novel they just ... were.