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Gardam's cast is wide and wonderful, saints and mystics, trollops and curmudgeons, yearning mothers and lost children, beloved figures such as Old Filth and less familiar - but equally unforgettable - characters like Signor Settimo, the sad-eyed provincial photographer marooned in Shipley or Florrie Ironside, the ferocious matron he seduces.

With a mischievous ear for dialogue, a glittering eye for detail and a capacious understanding of the vagaries of the human heart, Jane Gardam's stories will captivate, sadden and delight.

She gives us miracle heaped upon miracle, and insists that they should each one be handled with care. A lyrical novel that recalls his fully lived life, Old Filth has been acclaimed as Jane Gardam's masterpiece, a book where life and art merge.

And now that beautiful, haunting novel has been joined by a companion that also bursts with humor and wisdom: The Man in the Wooden Hat. Old Filth was Eddie's story. 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 the war. Betty had spent the duration in a Japanese internment camp. Filth was already a successful barrister, handsome, fast becoming rich, in need of a wife but unaccustomed to romance.

A perfect English couple of the late s. As a portrait of a marriage, with all the bittersweet secrets and surprising fulfillment of the year union of two remarkable people, the novel is a triumph. The Man in the Wooden Hat is fiction of a very high order from a great novelist working at the pinnacle of her considerable power.

It will be read and loved and recommended by all the many thousands of readers who found its predecessor, Old Filth, so compelling and so thoroughly satisfying. In the title story, octogenarian widower Edward Feathers, cold and old and going out to lunch with a woman called Dulcie he never much liked arrives at Dulcie's Dorset house, where shared sensibilities go a long way in carrying them through some awkward moments.

Altogether, Reach Out and Read the World is a transformative read, one that helps humanize our world through the power of story.

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She gives us miracle heaped upon miracle, and insists that they should each one be handled with care. A young girl aspiring to be a writer recounts her experiences growing up in England during World War II. Pratt wondered if Henry Wu was real: maybe he was a sort of waxwork - or a very fragile Chinese-china doll.

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Gardam's stories are acutely observed social commentaries on Englishness, its weaknesses and its illusions. From the award-winning author of Old Filth. Orphaned shortly thereafter, Polly will spend the next eighty years stranded in this quiet corner of the world as the twentieth century rages in the background. Through it all, Polly returns again and again to the story of Robinson Crusoe, who, marooned like her, fends off the madness of isolation with imagination.

Every time I return to it, I am comforted by its refusal to conform, its wonderful, boisterous bolshiness, and the intelligence with which it demonstrates that we are what we read. We know Polly intimately, and she haunts our imaginations as surely as Crusoe haunts hers. 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 Old filth av Jane Gardam Norli.

Long ago, Old Filth was a Raj orphan - one of the many young children sent 'Home' from the East to be fostered and educated in England. Mild, ageing eccentrics are Jane Gardam's forte. The moniker is not derogatory. Filthy rich he may be, but the old boy has always been fastidiously clean. Women adore him, but there's been nothing In so doing, she not only encapsulates a whole period from Jane Gardam - Old Filth.

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