A Handful of Dust
Author: Waugh, Evelyn
ISBN: 9780241970553
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 24 Sep 2014
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback / softback
New Penguin Essentials edition of the stylish satire that combines tragedy, comedy and savage irony.
'A whole Gothic world had come to grief . . .'
Beautiful Lady Brenda Last lives at Hetton Abbey, a crumbling Gothic monstrosity that is her husband Tony's pride and joy. Bored and restless after seven years of marriage, she drifts into an affair with a worthless young socialite. Abandoning the country for the glamorous yet shallow London scene, Brenda imagines divorce will bring happiness. Instead she and Tony feel lost and isolated - victims of the wreckless times in which they live . . .
ISBN: 9780241970553
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 24 Sep 2014
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback / softback
New Penguin Essentials edition of the stylish satire that combines tragedy, comedy and savage irony.
'A whole Gothic world had come to grief . . .'
Beautiful Lady Brenda Last lives at Hetton Abbey, a crumbling Gothic monstrosity that is her husband Tony's pride and joy. Bored and restless after seven years of marriage, she drifts into an affair with a worthless young socialite. Abandoning the country for the glamorous yet shallow London scene, Brenda imagines divorce will bring happiness. Instead she and Tony feel lost and isolated - victims of the wreckless times in which they live . . .
