The Brideshead Generation

'The Brideshead Generation has both style and substance, and is above all an enjoyable companion. It has a wildly amusing cast, here controlled by a skilful director.' - Evening Standard.

'Jovial and entertaining, full of the sort of stories that your friends will tell you if you don't read it before them.' - Independent.

'Carpenter has read widely and has collected an enormous fund of entertaining stories and facts.'
- Sunday Telegraph.

'Hauntingly sad and wonderfully funny and by far the best thing Humphrey Carpenter has done.'
- Fiona MacCarthy, The Times