"The satisfying conclusion to Gardam's Old Filth trilogy offers exquisite prose, wry humor, and keen insights into aging and death" ( The New Yorker) .While Old Filth introduced readers to Sir Edward Feathers, his dreadful childhood, and his decades-long marriage, The Man in the Wooden Hat was his wife Betty's story. Last Friends is Terence Veneering's turn. His beginnings were not those of the usual establishment grandee...

First in the Old Filth trilogy. A New York Times Notable Book. "Old Filth belongs in the Dickensian pantheon of memorable characters" ( The New York Times Book Review).Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, where he earned the nickname Old Filth (FILTH being an acronym for Failed In London Try Hong Kong) to his final working days as a respected judge at the English bar. Yet through it all he has ca...

The complete " wonderfully entertaining trilogy" about three British friends approaching their twilight years with bittersweet humor ( The Washington Post).Jane Gardam's beloved *Old Filth Trilogy—*including her masterpiece, Old Filth, voted one of the 100 greatest British novels in a BBC survey; The Man in the Wooden Hat; and *Last Friends—*are here presented in one volume.Emo...

Yorkshire, de zomer van 1946. De oorlog is net voorbij, er zijn voedselrantsoenen en men betaalt met kledingcoupons. De scholieren Hetty, Una en Lieselotte hebben een staats beurs gekregen en zijn aangenomen bij de beste universiteiten van het land. Ze kunnen niet wachten om uit hun ingeslapen kuststadje te vertrekken. Maar eerst bespreken de drie hun zomerplannen. Hetty is toegelaten tot de studie let terkunde in Londen, en gaat met een koffer vol boeken naar het Lake District om nog gauw...

Second in the Old Filth trilogy. "An astute, subtle depiction of marriage . . . absolutely wonderful" ( The Washington Post).Acclaimed as Jane Gardam's masterpiece, Old Filth is a lyrical novel that recalls the fully lived life of Sir Edward Feathers. The Man in the Wooden Hat is the history of his marriage told from the perspective of his wife, Betty, a character as vivid and enchanting as Filth himself.They met in Hong Kong after...

Marigold Green is zeventien, en haar wereld is klein. Ze groeit op binnen de muren van een afgelegen jongensinternaat in Yorkshire waar haar vader de scepter zwaait. Vrienden heeft ze niet; haar avonden vullen zich met zwijgzame potjes schaak met haar vader. Alleen haar ontembare verbeelding en haar vurig oranjerode haar brengen nog wat kleur in haar alledaagse bestaan. Maar dan duikt plots Grace weer op – haar raadselachtige jeugdvriendin, bloedstollend mooi, zelfverzekerd en mysterieus. ...

A novel that's "brilliant on sex, brilliant on bereavement and death, brilliant on god, brilliant on dottiness" from the acclaimed author of Old Filth (A. N. Wilson, Evening Standard).The story of a motherless girl named Faith and her family and close friends, all of whom are determined to see her live a happy life.Faith's mother died in childbirth; her overworked father cannot raise his child alone; and her unconventional grandmother refu...

"Far more than just another coming-of-age story" from the award-winning author of the Old Filth trilogy ( Bustle).Jane Gardam's marvelous stories of young girls on the threshold of womanhood— God on the Rocks and Crusoe's Daughter—have delighted fans and critics alike. These "modern classics" are now joined by a novel that is equally fresh and genuine, comic and touching ( The Independent).Jessica Vye introduces herself w...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: "So charming a novel that you don't want to give away a single one of the many twists of its plot" ( The New York Times).Originally published in Great Britain in 1978, the novel describes Margaret Marsh's coming of age one summer between the world wars. Caught in the backwash of a fervently religious father, a mother bitterly nostalgic for what might have been, the tea and sympathy of some thoroughly secular neighbors a...

The Whitbread Award–winning author of the Old Filth trilogy captures a moment in time for three young women on the cusp of adulthood.Yorkshire, 1946. The end of the war has changed the world again, and, emboldened by this new dawning, Hetty Fallows, Una Vane, and Lieselotte Klein seize the opportunities with enthusiasm. Hetty, desperate to escape the grasp of her critical mother, books a solo holiday to the Lake District under the pretext of completing her ...

Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel of the Year: "Gardam's portrait of an insanely imaginative woman in an elusive midlife crisis is impeccably drawn" ( The Seattle Times).With prose that is vibrant and witty, The Queen of the Tambourine traces the emotional breakdown—and eventual restoration—of Eliza Peabody, a smart and wildly imaginative woman who has become unbearably isolated in her prosperous London neighborhood. The letters Eliza w...

'Laat ik maar meteen vertellen dat ik door een overweldigende ervaring op mijn negende niet meer helemaal normaal ben.' De overweldigende ervaring waar Jessica Vye het over heeft, kleurt haar schooldagen en haar reactie op de wereld om haar heen: een wereld van rantsoeneringen en oorlogsbeperkingen, van ongemakkelijke jurken, ingetogen essays en stoffige tearooms. Want de jonge Jessica heeft van een gerespecteerde auteur te horen gekregen dat ze 'zonder enige twijfel' een geboren schrijfst...