Man In The Wooden Hat
$19.54
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
11 March 2014
Summary
‘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
Filth (Failed In London, Try Hong Kong) is a successful lawyer wh…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349139487 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0349139482 |
| Author: | Jane Gardam |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 11 March 2014 |
| Weight: | 223g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 125mm x 19mm |
You Can Find This Book In
What They're Saying
Critics Review
A supremely literary and youthful book - Sunday Times
Gardam’s writing is like painting on glass: vivid and translucent - Independent
What Gardam is particularly good at - and what made Old Filth so compelling - is creating for her characters fa ades of complete conventionality, which are then chipped away to reveal strange internal workings…But one need not be familiar with Filth’s history to be moved by Betty’s final summation of her long marriage…in a novel preoccupied by the fear of becoming old, anachronistic and obsolete, this late-flowering love stands as a reminder that time does not just decay, it ripens too - Olivia Laing, Guardian
What a lot Jane Gardam knows about love and its accommodations; the rich contradictory play of desire and loyalty, the sudden storms of feeling that assail the edifice of a marriage. And how elegantly and intelligently and kindly she writes about the instinctive, tendril-like gropings of one human heart towards another - Jane Shilling, Telegraph
About The Author
Jane Gardam
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.
Returns
This item is eligible for free returns within 30 days of delivery. See our returns policy for further details.