Vile Bodies debutantes and economic ruin in its

and economic ruin in its wake

So when his adopted daughter Lucy goes missing

but it wasn't all walks and treats

Marco's thirteen-year old cousin prays for deliverance from her forced marriage

From staging a food fight to serving in a soup kitchen

Vile Bodies debutantes and economic ruin in its"A wickedly witty and iridescent novel" (Time) from one of England's greatest satirists takes aim at the generation of Bright Young Things that dominated London high society in the 1920s. 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