AS famous for her tumultuous love life as for her 12 novels, Elizabeth Jane Howard was a shining star of London's literary set, transmuting her experiences into the fiction that made her name. The tramp of men marching through her life is deafening. Beautiful, acquiescent and longing for love, she had three husbands and a posse of literary lovers - Arthur Koestler, Kenneth Tynan, Cyril Connolly, Romain Gary, Cecil Day-Lewis - as well as numerous 'civilians'. Many were the husbands of her friends. Among them, one stands out like a towering peak among a range of hills - in her case, stretchin...
