Shrines of Gaiety is about 1920s London society—but don't look for the Bright Young Things to star in it.
Over the past two decades, Kate Atkinson has written two kinds of novels: a very popular series of literary mysteries featuring a private detective named Jackson Brodie, and complex, often mournful historical novels about the war-scarred lives of 20th-century Britons. Which category does her latest,fall into? The welcome answer is a bit of both.
Ineveryone in town is talking about a bestselling book, later adapted for the stage, portraying this milieu:by Michael Arlen, a real novel now long forgotten. There’s also a character evidently based on Waugh, who despite fawning over the Bright Young Things in person, is at work on a book about how their brightness has become “tarnished.
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