Their lives and finances are wrapped up in the costly upkeep of this neo-Gothic home that is of sentimental importance to Tony, given that it’s been in his family for generations. Brenda and Tony live in a historic mansion called Hetton Abbey. We meet a group of English socialites and at the heart of this group is Lady Brenda Last - the unfaithful wife of Tony Last - and her lover, John Beaver.
Yet human existence is fundamentally evanescent and that’s what Evelyn Waugh explores in his 1934 novel A Handful of Dust. The dynamics of daily life, the intricacies of human relationships, and people with prestige or power in our communities can appear to be of unfaltering importance.
Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust, Penguin, 1988 (first edition published in 1934), 221 pgs.
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