![]() As Jazz was a large part of the lifestyle of the Bright Young Things, this isn’t surprising. ![]() The focus is primarily on London however there is some reference to the United States and Paris. ![]() The more staid members of their age group and class, the debs, and the attitudes of their parents to the antics of the hedonistic set are also covered. The central cast of aristocrats and artists loom large in a playful narrative of all night dancing, freak parties, treasure hunts through London, immodest fashions and heavy drinking. Presented in a gossipy tone, with first-hand accounts from those who were part of the group of friends dubbed the ‘Bright Young People’ by the popular press, and the generation of ‘Bright Young Things’ they led and inspired. Described in the blurb as a ‘sweeping look at the changing world of the Jazz Age, as life below stairs vanished forever, loose morals ran riot, and new inventions made it seem anything was possible’, this book gives an entertaining glimpse in to the lives of the Bright Young People, the wealthy young Mayfair set who ran riot in London in the Nineteen Twenties. ![]()
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