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Odd Girl Out
- Author
- Elizabeth Jane Howard
- Narrator
- Olivia Dowd
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 16 April 2026
- Run Time
- 9 hours 23 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Modern and Contemporary romance, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Romantic suspense, Classic fiction: literary and general
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
What to expect
From the lauded, bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, in Odd Girl Out, Elizabeth Jane Howard reveals with devastating accuracy a marriage put in a most destructive situation.
Anna and Edmund Cornhill have a happy marriage and a lovely home. They are content, complete, absorbed in their private idyll.
Arabella, who comes to stay one lazy summer, is rich, rootless and amoral – and, as they find out, beautiful and loving.
In her elegant prose, Howard traces the web of love and desire that entangles these three and will, ultimately, leave one of them behind.
'Her talent seemed so effervescent, so unstoppable, that there was no predicting where it might take her' – Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall
Critics Review
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Her talent seemed so effervescent, so unstoppable, that there was no predicting where it might take her
Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall
User Reviews
Book 5.0
Narration 5.0
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5.0 5.0
This is probably my favourite Elizabeth Jane Howard book.She lights a fuse and detonates the social pretence of the period, blowing it to smithereens. Compelling and convincing from beginning to end.
jbg 2026-09-21
Details
- Author
- Elizabeth Jane Howard
- Narrator
- Olivia Dowd
- Duration
- 9 hours 23 minutes
- Release Date
- 16 April 2026
- ISBN
- 9781037409103
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Modern and Contemporary romance, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Romantic suspense, Classic fiction: literary and general
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
From the lauded, bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, in Odd Girl Out, Elizabeth Jane Howard reveals with devastating accuracy a marriage put in a most destructive situation.Anna and Edmund Cornhill have a happy marriage and a lovely home. They are content, complete, absorbed in their private idyll.Arabella, who comes to stay one lazy summer, is rich, rootless and amoral – and, as they find out, beautiful and loving.In her elegant prose, Howard traces the web of love and desire that entangles these three and will, ultimately, leave one of them behind.'Her talent seemed so effervescent, so unstoppable, that there was no predicting where it might take her' – Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall
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