Handful of Dust. Evelyn Waugh. 2008.

Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a satirical depiction of the 'sterile' generation between the wars. It tells the story of bored Lady Brenda Last, who abandons her husband's Gothic pile to a conduct in affair with shallow socialite John Beaver of the elgravia set. A Handful of Dust remains one of the finest tragedies and comedies of ill manners.