Flappers
22 May 2014Imprint: Pan
Synopsis
For many young women, the 1920s felt like a promise of liberty. It was a period when they dared to shorten their skirts and shingle their hair, to smoke, drink, take drugs and to claim sexual freedoms. In an era of soaring stock markets, consumer expansion, urbanization and fast travel, women were reimagining both the small detail and the large...
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22 May 2014512 pages
9780330529525Imprint: Pan
Reviews
Flappers is all good, dirty fun . . . Mackrell is an engaging storyteller with a deceptively light touchCressida Connolly, Sunday Telegraph
Offers a way to look beyond the clichés of the Roaring Twenties into what was actually going on in these women's heads. Mackrell - who writes with great brio - shows us the uncertainly and confusion that often lay behind the brittle artifice.Bee Wilson, Sunday Times
Scintillating ... Mackrell is clever at painting the subtly complex picture of these women's lives from giddy high spirits to steadfast obstinacy, from emotional fragility to creative focus and weaving them together against a backdrop that is also writ clear. This enthralling, elegant book conjures up all the glamour and razzmatazz but never flinches from the caverns of pain beneath.Caroline Jowett, Daily Express
Judith Mackrell's group biography of six women of the Roaring Twenties is a terrific read.Bel Mooney, Daily Mail
