nA terrifically engaging and original biography of one of Englands greatest novelists, Evelyn Waugh, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched, and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life and inspired his masterpiece, Brideshead Revisited. Fans of The Mitfords, D.J. Taylors Bright Young People, and Alexander Waughs Fathers and Sons, as well as Anglophiles in general, will find much to savor in Paula Byrnes wonderful Mad World.