Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead. Paula Byrne

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      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Prologue

Chapter 1: A Tale of Two Childhoods

Chapter 2: Lancing versus Eton

Chapter 3: Oxford: ‘… her secret none can utter’

Chapter 4: The Scarlet Woman

Chapter 5: In the Balance

Chapter 6: The Lygon Heritage

       Chapter 7: Untoward Incidents

       Chapter 8: Bright Young Things

       Chapter 9: The Busting of Boom

       Chapter 10: Madresfield Visited

       Chapter 11: The Beauchamp Belles

       Chapter 12: Christmas at Mad

       Chapter 13: An Encounter in Rome

       Chapter 14: Up the Amazon

       Chapter 15: A Gothic Man

       Chapter 16: Fiasco in the Arctic

       Chapter 17: Ladies and Lapdogs

       Chapter 18: A Year of Departures

       Chapter 19: Three Weddings and a Funeral

       Chapter 20: Waugh’s War

       Chapter 21: The Door to Brideshead

       Chapter 22: Brideshead Unlocked

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       P.S. Ideas, interviews & features …

       About the Author

       The Waugh Generation: Sarah O’Reilly talks to Paula Byrne

       A Writing Life

       Life at a Glance

       About the Book

       Other Worlds by Paula Byrne

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