“Shrines of Gaiety,” the breathtaking new book by Scottish writer Kate Atkinson ... clubland” (previously fictionalized as Ma Mayfield in Evelyn Waugh’s “Brideshead Revisited”), seems from the outside ...

He is currently an Army officer, who is stationed at a makeshift camp set up at Brideshead estate before imminently getting shipped into battle. The locale, which is not unfamiliar to him ...