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21%OFFJane Gardam - The Man in the Wooden Hat - 9780349139487 - V9780349139487
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The Man in the Wooden Hat

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Description for The Man in the Wooden Hat Paperback. * A box of delights - another masterpiece from Jane Gardam and a companion novel to OLD FILTH Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 222.

'It's a cliche to compare novelists to Jane Austen, but in the case of Jane Gardam it happens to be true. Her diamond-like prose, her understanding of the human heart, her formal inventiveness and her sense of what it is to be alive - young, old, lonely, in love - never fades' Amanda Craig

'Her work, like Sylvia Townsend Warner's, has that appealing combination of elegance, erudition and flinty wit' Patrick Gale

Filth (Failed In London, Try Hong Kong) is a successful lawyer when he marries Elisabeth in Hong Kong soon after the War. Reserved, immaculate and courteous, Filth finds ... Read more

How Elisabeth turns into Betty and whether she remains loyal to stolid Filth or is swept up by caddish Veneering, makes for a page-turning plot in a perfect novel which is full of surprises and revelations, as well as the humour and eccentricites for which Jane Gardam's writing is famous.

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Product Details

Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
233g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349139487
SKU
V9780349139487
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99

About Jane Gardam
Jane Gardam has been awarded the Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a lifetime's contribution to the enjoyment of literature; has twice won a Whitbread Award and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She was awarded an OBE in January 2009.

Reviews for The Man in the Wooden Hat
What Gardam is particularly good at - and what made Old Filth so compelling - is creating for her characters façades of complete conventionality, which are then chipped away to reveal strange internal workings...But one need not be familiar with Filth's history to be moved by Betty's final summation of her long marriage...in a novel preoccupied by the fear of ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Man in the Wooden Hat


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