Title: Detailed, informed, sometimes catty!
Product review: This is a very detailed social history of Britain between the world wars. It's sometimes a slog but is leavened by lots of amusing anecdotes about fads and celebrities, and the authors occasionally make catty comments about fellow writers of the period, a rich one in Brit lit. It was originally published in 1940 which, on the one hand, gives it a dated feel because the authors lack the decades of hindsight about events, particularly the outcome of WWII, that we enjoy today. Yet, the fact that it was a contemporary account also lends an immediacy to the writing. History buffs and Anglophiles should enjoy it.
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