REVIEW: MAD WORLD by Paula Byrne

Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead “Thorough” is the first word I would use to describe this biography.  Intense, assured, incisive. America had Hemingway and Fitzgerald, while England had Waugh and Wodehouse.   Wodehouse found the whole scene rather silly and made hysterical fun of it.  Waugh, on the other hand, had a more…