The Lost Girls Audiobook Summary
Who were the Lost Girls? Chic, glamorous, and bohemian, as likely to be found living in a rat-haunted maisonette as dining at the Ritz, Lys Lubbock, Sonia Brownell, Barbara Skelton, and Janetta Parlade cut a swath through English literary and artistic life at the height of World War II.
Three of them had affairs with Lucian Freud. One of them married George Orwell. Another became the mistress of the King of Egypt.
They had very different–and sometimes explosive–personalities, but taken together they form a distinctive part of the wartime demographic: bright, beautiful, independent-minded women with tough upbringings who were determined to make the most of their lives in a chaotic time.
Ranging from Bloomsbury and Soho to Cairo and the couture studios of Schiaparelli and Hartnell, the Lost Girls would inspire the work of George Orwell, Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell, and Nancy Mitford. They are the missing link between the Lost Generation and Bright Young People and the Dionysiac cultural revolution of the 1960s. Sweeping, passionate, and unexpectedly poignant, this is their untold story.
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The Lost Girls Audiobook Narrator
Clare Corbett is the narrator of The Lost Girls audiobook that was written by D. J. Taylor
Clare Corbett has had a successful career on stage, screen, and radio. Her theatre credits include To Kill A Mockingbird, Pygmalion, and Spoonface Steinberg, and her television credits include BBC’s Spooks, Fastnet, and Final Demand. The winner of the prestigious Carleton Hobbs Radio Award, she has appeared in over 250 radio plays including Absolute Power, Venus and Adonis, and Dr. Zhivago. Her other voice work includes Aardman Animation’s The Planet Sketch and numerous audiobooks.
About the Author(s) of The Lost Girls
D. J. Taylor is the author of The Lost Girls
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The Lost Girls Full Details
Narrator | Clare Corbett |
Length | 11 hours 36 minutes |
Author | D. J. Taylor |
Category | |
Publisher | Dreamscape Media |
Release date | December 03, 2019 |
ISBN | 9781666560763 |
Subjects
The publisher of the The Lost Girls is Dreamscape Media. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Women
Additional info
The publisher of the The Lost Girls is Dreamscape Media. The imprint is Dreamscape Media. It is supplied by Dreamscape Media. The ISBN-13 is 9781666560763.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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