A gripping biography of six extraordinary women who, in their very different ways, epitomise the decade they came of age - the 1920s
Judith Mackrell is a celebrated dance critic, writing first for the Independent and now for the Guardian. Her biography of the Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova, Bloomsbury Ballerina, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award. She has also appeared on television and radio, as well as writing on dance, co-authoring The Oxford Dictionary of Dance. She lives in London with her family.
Flappers is all good, dirty fun . . . Mackrell is an engaging
storyteller with a deceptively light touch
*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.
*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.
*Daily Express*
Judith Mackrell's group biography of six women of the Roaring
Twenties is a terrific read.
*Daily Mail*
Engaging
*Mail on Sunday*
Informative and deeply moving ... The strength of this compelling
book derives from the cumulative effect of so much pain and
suffering endured by these once hopeful young pioneering women
*Literary Review*
Erudite and detailed
*Spectator*
Mackrell interweaves these intense lives with rich detail of their
wider worlds . . . she writes beautifully, peppering her prose with
their sly one-liners and her own insights, while maintaining a pace
as swift as the exhausting lives she describes.
*Kate Colquhoun*
Hugely entertaining . . . in bringing these fascinating women back
to life, she reminds today's women that our own lives would be very
different without the trails their generation blazed.
*Irish Times*
It's in the bringing together of these highly diverse women under
the 'flapper' umbrella that Mackrell's real genius lies, showing us
the relationship between an age and the very different individuals
who shone during it.
*Independent on Sunday*
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