Brideshead Revisited: Thoughts?

Recently finished Brideshead Revisited. Outside the really beautiful prose, and it being the only work of Waugh I’ve read, I’m not really even sure what the book what about.

Going into it, I was told that it has strong Catholic and homosexual themes. It’s presented from an outsider looking ins perspective of the English Catholic nobility of the 20th century.

As someone who was brought up in the Catholic tradition, I found it’s presentation of Catholicism a little bizarre. It was nearly as homosexual as I thought it would be. But that’s expected perhaps of a novel written during a time when LGBT relations were criminal.

I’m not really sure what to take away from the book. I thought it was a nice story but I was not incredibly invested in the characters.

For those whose read it, what are your thoughts? Is there something I’m missing?