Caitlynn Quinn
Fascist movements are seizing power in leading nations, and England waits nervously. Caitlynn Quinn, half Scottish and half British, lives in the heart of London, during a dark hour, on the verge of war. Squashed between the stock market crash and the rise of the Nazis, couples drink champagne, and women wear backless silk evening gowns, held up by only a yoke or spaghetti straps. Slinky and moving about, Caitlynn endures inequality with style. Caitlyn works at a newspaper, but she has more leisure time than we do today and embraces social pursuits as a part of her routine life. She doesn't have the same technology we do, but she easily jumps on the Tube or catches the bus. She has a personal phone and her own automobile. She also likes to fly, working on her pilots-A license. She's educated and well-read and loves to see a film. Caitlynn lives in an era of uncertainty, and poverty, juxtaposed against luxury, brocade, fringes, and ornamental brass. Just a part of the mystic ...
