Lost Girls

Praise for D.J. Taylor'Taylor's biography is a persuasive and profoundly moving exploration of the ways in which Orwell's work was constructed from the stones of a ruined life - [it] is likely to prove in many ways definitive' Daily Telegraph 'Shrewd and absorbing in his analysis of the way Waugh and Nancy Mitford promoted the world they would soon skewer in fiction' Sunday Times'Taylor wins the biographical contest . . . [He] is an accomplished literary critic and he illuminates Orwell's work in the context of his life elegantly and expertly' Guardian'D.J. Taylor's enthusiasm, delivered with the zeal of a recent convert, proves there is fascination even in empty living and that the Bright Young Brigade of the 1920s are just as worthy of a book or two as . . . all the flapping 'It-people' of our own generation' Literary Review 'Taylor writes with such skill and aplomb that it's impossible not to be swept along by the intelligence and observations' Independent on Sunday