CAFFREY, Kate

[175] pp.

Gordon & Cremonesi Publishers

1978

10 1/2″ x 6 7/8″

VG/ VG

Kate Caffrey brings vividly to life what was to be seen in the last look round before the world was plunged into war. The book studies England’s middle-class society and culture which developed to its peak during the last 2 years before the second world war. The preceding years of the Depression were overcome and overlaid by the efforts of a generation who both created and reflected the dazzling images of the silver screen: white telephones, silks and furs, foxtrots, dressing up to go shopping, the Mediterranean cruises–an age of niceties, manners and financial drama.