Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh games the painter Christiane Ritter leaves

the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable home for a year with her husband on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen

Crooked from the day she was born

complete with a pretty purple flower

from becoming a part of John Waters' legendary acting troupe to becoming a mother

Now classified as deserters

Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh games the painter Christiane Ritter leavesEvelyn Waugh's acidly funny novel of the Roaring Twenties, with an introduction by Simon JamesIn the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties' Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade whether promiscuity, dancing, cocktail parties or sports