# A Handful of Dust

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- Book: [A Handful of Dust](https://www.bookquiver.com/evelyn-waugh/a-handful-of-dust) ([A Handful of Dust.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/evelyn-waugh/a-handful-of-dust.md))
- Authors: [Evelyn Waugh](https://www.bookquiver.com/evelyn-waugh), [Andrew Sachs](https://www.bookquiver.com/andrew-sachs)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4197-055-3
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2014-08-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'A whole Gothic world had come to grief . . .' Beautiful Lady Brenda Last lives at Hetton Abbey, a crumbling Gothic monstrosity that is her husband Tony's pride and joy. Bored and restless after seven years of marriage, she drifts into an affair with a worthless young socialite. Abandoning the country for the glamorous yet shallow London scene, Brenda imagines divorce will bring happiness. Instead she and Tony feel lost and isolated - victims of the wreckless times in which they live . . .