Bright Young People

Taylor writes with such skill and aplomb that it’s impossible not to be swept along by the intelligence and observations * Guardian *Shrewd and absorbing in his analysis of the way Waugh and Nancy Mitford promoted the world they would soon skewer in fiction * Sunday Times *Moving and always entertaining – Jane Stevenson * Daily Telegraph *The depth and integrity of Taylor’s research can only inspire awe and admiration. * Sunday Express *D J Taylor’s enthusiasm, delivered with the zeal of a recent convert, proves there is fascination even in empty living and that the Bright Young Brigade of the 1920s are just as worthy of a book or two as Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, Tamara Beckwith, Calum Best and all the flapping ‘It-people’ of our own generation – Alexander Waugh * Literary Review *A spirited and nostalgic book…a giddy ride through a lost world of overindulgent gaiety and the next best thing to being at the parties oneself’ * Scotland on Sunday *His fascinating study of hedonism, futility and fracture… a complex study of family, fear and breakdown * New Statesman *

D.J. Taylor is a novelist, critic and acclaimed biographer of William Thackeray and George Orwell (both available in paperback). His Orwell- The Life won the Whitbread Biography of the year for 2003. His most recent books are the Victorian novel Kept- A Victorian Mystery (Chatto, 2006) and The Corinthian Spirit- on the decline of Amateurism in Sport (Yellow Jersey, 2006). He is married with three children and lives in Norwich.

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