The Man in the Wooden Hat - Old Filth Trilogy

'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.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Gardam
• Publisher: Abacus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2014
• EAN: 9780349139487
• ISBN: 978-0-349-13948-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Series: ABACUS; Old Filth; Old Filth
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Friendship, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Psychological, FICTION / Satire, FICTION / Legal, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor