description: After seven years of marriage the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with country life and drifts into an affair with shallow young socialite John Beaver and foresakes her unsuspecting husband as she become more and more involved with the glamorous Belgravia set.
language: English
title: A Handful of Dust
titlecomplete: A Handful of Dust
characters: Mister Todd, Doctor Messinger, Missis Beaver, John Beaver, Brenda Last, Polly Cockpurse, Tony Last, John Grant-Menzies
genres: Literary Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Humor, Modern Classics, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, British Literature, Novels, Classics
ratings_count: 25809
places: England
publisher: Penguin Audio UK