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Observant, witty, clever and at times, laugh out loud funny, Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies captures the type of people labelled as the Bright Young Things (BYT) who in 1920's/early 1930s Britain were fashionably young and known for hedonistic and outrageous behaviours (for the time).

Here we see their [BYTs'] pursuit of hedonism, attraction and fun with technology [airships and racing cars], whilst parties, gossip, gambling, match-making and marriage breaking, riches and money - or for some a lack of, and, the standards and expected behaviours by older generations are all experienced by our ensemble.

Waugh's delivery in Vile Bodies is dry, pointed, wry, absurd, at times sympathetic and often funny.

Overall, a fun and enjoyable read about an age that left a legacy through fashion, art, books and news coverage, and created some legends and sadly was disastrous for a few too.
Chin, chin old girl and tally ho! old man.