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|title=Bright Young Things

|author=Alison Maloney

|publisher=Virgin

|date=August 2012

|summary=Collection of trivia is good fun to dip into despite lacking any real insight into the decade it covers.

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According to the summary I read of ''Bright Young Things'' before choosing the book to read, it 'takes a sweeping look at the changing world of the Jazz Age'. I was expecting it to be something of a narrative account of the Roaring Twenties – in actual fact, it's set out as a collection of trivia about the decade. Similarly, the 'first person accounts' mentioned on the inside front cover are limited to two or three sentence quotes.

For a meatier study of the years immediately prior to the Roaring Twenties then [[The Great Silence: 1918-1920 Living in the Shadow of the Great War by Juliet Nicolson]] is highly recommended.

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