The Lost Girls: Love and Literature in Wartime London

by D.J. Taylor

Book Overview

The Booker Prize-nominated author of Derby Day delivers a sumptuous cultural history as seen through the lives of four enigmatic women.

Who were the Lost Girls? Chic, glamorous, and bohemian, as likely to be found living in a rat-haunted maisonette as dining at the Ritz, Lys Lubbock, Sonia Brownell, Barbara Skelton, and Janetta Parlade cut a swath through English literary and artistic life at the height of World War II.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643133152
• ISBN13: 9781643133157
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"