Publisher's Synopsis
From an author The Queen called 'a humorist of the first order' comes the deliciously dark tale of the strange and woeful young womanhood of Margaret, the narrator of Elizabeth Eliot's debut novel, and her friend Alice, from their final year at boarding school in the late 1920s until just before World War II. The girls have adventures at school, are presented at court, and experience the vicissitudes of high society and their eccentric, increasingly impoverished families. Alice marries, unhappily, and involves Margaret in her hardships, until she suddenly decides - with fabulous success - to become an actress. And through it all the young women engage in loopy existential ponderings about their fates, gleefully detailing the radicalo instability of their world.
