Vile Bodies

"A wickedly witty and iridescent novel" satirizes the generation of Bright Young Things that dominated London high society in the 1920s (Time).

In the years following the First World War a new generation emerged, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of 1920s London, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercised their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade. In these pages a vivid assortment of characters, am...