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If you appreciated the powerful atmosphere of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby you might just have an inkling of the smoothly professional efficiency of Alec Waugh's The Fatal Surprise. His book breathes the beliefs and behaviour of the early years of the 20th century. Raymond Peronne has prosperity, is excellent, is devastatingly appealing to women: his fatal item. Second son of your baronet, Perronne would go to Oxford (from which he's rusticated), then to NY (in the '20s and '30s) and is also in Egypt during the war (moving in circles then, just as this book, inhabited by such as Evelyn Waugh, Claud Cockburn and Robin Maugham). In anxious expectation we watch Peronne, for whom good fortune seems always imminent, show up at every point-until he discovers the isle of Dominica and commences a romance the like of which he hasn't known. Alec Waugh (1898-1981) was a British novelist delivered in London and educated at Sherborne Community College, Dorset. Waugh's first book, The Loom of Children (1917), is a semi-autobiographical bank account of public-school life that caused some controversy at the time and resulted in his expulsion. Waugh was the only youngster ever before to be expelled from Old Shirburnian Contemporary society. Despite setting this record, Waugh went on to become the successful writer of over 50 works, and resided in many unique places throughout his life which later became the options for a few of his text messages. He was also a noted wine beverage connoisseur and campaigned to make the cocktail party a normal feature of 1920s sociable life.
