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22 May 2014
512 pages
9780330529525
Imprint: Pan

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Flappers is all good, dirty fun . . . Mackrell is an engaging storyteller with a deceptively light touch
Offers a way to look beyond the clichés of the Roaring Twenties into what was actually going on in these women's heads. Mackrell - who writes with great brio - shows us the uncertainly and confusion that often lay behind the brittle artifice.
Scintillating ... Mackrell is clever at painting the subtly complex picture of these women's lives from giddy high spirits to steadfast obstinacy, from emotional fragility to creative focus and weaving them together against a backdrop that is also writ clear. This enthralling, elegant book conjures up all the glamour and razzmatazz but never flinches from the caverns of pain beneath.
Judith Mackrell's group biography of six women of the Roaring Twenties is a terrific read.