The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh

I read this January 2016
It was the Regency Book Club choice (us renegades from the Waterstones book club) for February 2016
 I must say I enjoyed this little book, macabre but funny.

Sub titled An Anglo- American Tragedy...that about sums it up.  Highlighting the differences between our 2 countries.

Set in the 1940's I'd guess, but a California full of Englishmen harping back to the old country and gentler times.

The hero Dennis Barlow ( a poet) works at A Happier Hunting Ground pet cemetery and after the suicide of a friend is propelled into the world of the American human cemetery Whispering Glades, with it strange rituals.  He dates a corpse beautician, who in turn is loved by the embalmer... A classic of that old school style of British writing that  micks the world of the posh and the apuper alike.  I haven't read any Evelyn Waugh for such a long time, I was really glad this little book was picked. I hope the others like it as much as I did.
10/10