Becky by Sarah May review – a Vanity Fair for the mass-media age | Fiction
Mention William Thackeray’s Vanity Fair, and the image that comes to most people’s minds is that of young Becky Sharp flinging her copy of Johnson’s “Dixonary” – a school leaving present – out of the carriage window as it drives off. It’s a defiant gesture typical of this high-spirited heroine, who grapples her way up through society from poor-orphan status to financial and social security.Becky’s story has been updated for the mass-media age by Sarah May, author of The Nudist Colony, as well as several lighter novels…