Before the War

A pregnant woman takes a husband in Edwardian London in this witty novel of love, death, and aristocracy by the author of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil . “A daredevil combination of farce and satire, pathos and bathos, written in a post-modernist, self-referential style, which effervesces its eccentric way through . . . pages that carry shades of Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, P. G. Wodehouse, and John Fowles.” — The Times Literary Supplement (UK) London, 1922. It’s a cold Novembe