Jane Gardam

The Man In The Wooden Hat (eBook, ePUB)

From the Orange Prize shortlisted author

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Another masterpiece from Jane Gardam and the second novel in the Old Filth trilogy

'She does fiction as it should be done, with confidence and insight' CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE

'Witty, subversive, moving' THE TIMES

'Full of the humour and eccentricity that have made Gardam one of the most enjoyable novelists writing today' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Old Filth told the story of Sir Edward (Eddie) Feathers QC, aka Filth, his colonial upbringing and career, his long and comfortable marriage, his rivalries and friendships. The Man in the Wooden Hat picks up these threads from the perspective of Filth's wife, Betty. An orphan of the Japanese internment camps, a free spirit, a clever code-breaker at Bletchley Park, Betty has her own secret passions. No wonder she is drawn to Filth's hated rival at the Bar, the brash, forceful Veneering.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405522335
• Artikelnr.: 39267854

Autorenporträt

Jane Gardam is the only writer to have been twice awarded the Whitbread/Costa Prize for Best Novel of the Year, for The Queen of the Tambourine and The Hollow Land. She also holds a Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a lifetime's contribution to the enjoyment of literature. She is the author of five volumes of acclaimed stories: Black Faces, White Faces (David Higham Prize and the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize); The Pangs of Love (Katherine Mansfield Prize); Going into a Dark House (Silver Pen Award from PEN); Missing the Midnight; and The People on Privilege Hill. Her novels include God on the Rocks, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Faith Fox; The Flight of the Maidens; the bestselling Old Filth, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2005; The Man in the Wooden Hat; and Last Friends. Jane Gardam was born in Yorkshire. She now lives in east Kent.

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Rezensionen

A supremely literary and youthful book Sunday Times