Kept: A Story of Post-War London

By Alec Waugh

Book Overview

A rich tale centred around the lives of Marjorie Fairfield, a beautiful and penniless young woman who is the mistress of a wealthy business man; and the symbolically named Ransom Heritage, one of the many young men who were cast adrift after the First World War ended and who has been abruptly deprived of a sense of purpose, ambition and hope. Around these young people and their circle whirls the carefree society of fashionable post-war London - a raucous, glamorous and perhaps slightly shrill world of cocktails and nightclubs, tea dances and illicit t te- -t tes. Waugh depicts a frenetic society where all too many people are 'kept' in some way - financially, by a well-off lover, inherited capital, an unwanted husband; or more figuratively, by a reputation, a title - a relationship, even.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1448201306
• ISBN13: 9781448201303
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"