Kept - A Story of Post-War London

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 tete-a-tetes. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Alec Waugh
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.08.2012
• EAN: 9781448201303
• ISBN: 978-1-4482-0130-3
• No. of pages: 316
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; London, Greater London, FICTION / City Life, Narrative theme: Sense of place, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), FICTION / World Literature / England / 20th Century, Classic fiction: general and literary