I loved Evelyn Waugh’s tone and prose with his writing and I didn’t think I would, it was stunning I think one of the best written books I have ever read. It doesn’t sound as thrilling as it is, seriously its brilliant. Before long he is embroiled in the entire goings on at Brideshead and a tug of war for his attentions from the siblings. He also discovers the catholic undercurrent that rules everyone in the families lives some for good most for bad. There he meets Sebastian’s mysterious and enticing sister and his domineering mother, the fabulous, Lady Marchmain. Before long he is invited to meet Sebastian’s family at Brideshead. Soon the two of them have become the thickest of friends with an added certain tension in the background. See sometimes you should judge a book by its cover.Ĭharles Ryder is a bit of a misfit, he doesn’t seem to have a particular place in school society until he starts at Oxford and meets Sebastian (a grown man who carries a bear everywhere he goes) someone who is he warned to avoid. Oddly this is how the previous book group started with ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’ so it seemed write to do it again and start with Brideshead Revisited especially as we both wanted one of the fabulous old covers as shown. So after leaving book group (I know shocking) myself and Polly have started ‘Rogue Book Group’ in which we only read books that we both already own or read the books that have been recently made into films and then watch the movie.
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