A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh Hardback Book 9780241585276

After seven years of marriage the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband Tony She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set Brilliantly combining tragedy comedy and savage irony A Handful of Dust captures the irresponsible mood of the crazy and sterile generation between the wars This breakdown of the Last marriage is a painful comic reworking of Waughs own divorce and a symbol of the breakdown of society