Fiction

The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth #2)

Author:

Jane Gardam

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Description

'What a lot Jane Gardam knows about love and its accommodations...And how elegantly and intelligently and kindly she writes about the instinctive, tendril-like gropings of one human heart towards another' Jane Shilling, Telegraph 'On its own, The Man in the Wooden Hat is funny and affecting, but read alongside Old Filth, it's remarkable' New York Times 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 it hard to demonstrate his emotions. But Elisabeth is different - a free spirit. She was brought up in the Japanese Internment Camps, which killed both her parents but left her with a lust for survival and an affinity with the Far East. No wonder she is attracted to Filth's hated rival at the Bar - the brash, forceful Veneering. Veneering has a Chinese wife and an adored son - and no difficulty whatsoever in demonstrating his emotions . . . 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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* A box of delights - another masterpiece from Jane Gardam and a companion novel to OLD FILTH

Awards

Shortlisted for Independent Booksellers' Book of the Year Award: Adults' Book of the Year 2011. IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2011.

Author description

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.

General Fields

ISBN : 9780349139487
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Imprint : Abacus
Weight (g) : 0.23
Publication date : February 2014
Dimensions : 198mm X 126mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
Availability date : March 2014
Product Type : books

Special Fields

Author : Jane Gardam
Bind : Paperback
Edition : 314
Language : English
Dewey classification : 823.914
Reading Level : very good
Pages : 288