DOLORES GORDON-SMITH
Dolores lives in a small town near Manchester with her husband, five children, three cats and two dogs. She has always been fascinated by the Twenties.
The four years of the First World War had ripped away the old securities and expectations and, when it was over, things were never the same again. Everything changed, from politics to fashions. Skirts rose to the knee and women cropped, bobbed or shingled their hair. Music took a new direction; listen to the clarinet solo of Rhapsody in Blue, the urbane, polished sophistication of Cole Porter and Noel Coward, the wistful longing of Jerome Kern and the “crazy rhythm” of Jazz.
Popular fiction (Agatha Christie, P.G. Wodehouse and Dorothy L. Sayers are three of her favourites) reflected the new age. The classic detective story, where an ordered world is plunged into chaos and then re-invented, is the perfect vehicle to celebrate the energy of this brave new world.
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