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Austria, Feb 1925: It had been always to stay a special time frame for Dude Renton. There his chance meeting with the young and beautiful, but married, Mrs Renee Burton, precipitated the first problems in his life. Hitherto he previously been certain of himself temperamentally and emotionally: the 1914-18 war over, he previously focused on his love of rugby, eventually being "capped" for Great britain, and he realized that one day, when too old to learn, he would get into the family wines business. Until that significantly off-day, life must have been carefree. But Renee was to improve his plans radically. This storyline with their love and devotion is set in England between the wars: a time of changing criteria when young men were prepared to question and were unprepared to simply accept a means of life just because fathers thought it was their duty. Young women were taking good thing about a newfound independence and higher opportunities, and the young men respected them none the less for this. Guy's own family became consultant of the new thought process. Peace and war, security and unease, joy and tragedy are topics that weave themselves through this hypersensitive and superbly characterised novel where Alec Waugh has brilliantly conveyed the atmosphere of serenity and foreboding that characterised British life during this time period. Alec Waugh, 1898-1981, was a United kingdom novelist given birth to in London and informed at Sherborne Public College, Dorset. Waugh's first novel, The Loom of Youth (1917), is a semi-autobiographical bank account of public-school life that brought on some controversy at the time and led to his expulsion. Waugh was the only boy ever before to be expelled from Old Shirburnian Society. Despite establishing this record, Waugh continued to become the successful writer of over 50 works, and lived in many exotic places throughout his life which later became the options for some of his text messages. He was also a observed wines connoisseur and campaigned to make the cocktail party a regular feature of 1920s sociable life.
