'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 'Sharp, humane, generous and wonderfully funny,
she is one of our very finest writers' Hilary Mantel Shortlisted
for the 2014 Folio Prize. Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat
told with bristling tenderness and black humour the stories of that
Titan of the Hong Kong law courts, Old Filth QC, and his clever,
misunderstood wife Betty. Last Friends, the final volume of this
trilogy, picks up with Terence Veneering, Filth's great rival in
work and - though it was never spoken of - in love. Veneering's
were not the usual beginnings of an establishment silk: the son of
a Russian acrobat marooned in northeast England and a devoted local
girl, he escapes the war to emerge in the Far East as a man of
panache, success and fame. But, always, at the stuffy English Bar
he is treated with suspicion: where did this blond, louche,
brilliant Slav come from? Veneering, Filth and their friends tell a
tale of love, friendship, grace, the bittersweet experiences of a
now-forgotten Empire and the disappointments and consolations of
age.
General
| Imprint: |
Abacus
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
February 2014 |
| Authors: |
Jane Gardam
|
| Dimensions: |
197 x 126 x 17mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - B-format
|
| Pages: |
241 |
| Edition: |
Digital original |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-349-00016-9 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
| LSN: |
0-349-00016-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780349000169 |
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