Last Friends Old Filth Trilogy

@2@@20@'Like Evelyn Waugh's@18@ Brideshead Revisited@19@, the Old Filth trilogy restores us to an era rich in spectacle and bristling with insinuation and intrigue' Boston Globe@21@@3@@2@@20@'Sharp, humane, generous and wonderfully funny, she is one of our very finest writers' Hilary Mantel@21@@16@@20@@21@@16@@20@Shortlisted for the 2014 Folio Prize.@21@@16@@18@@19@@16@@18@Old Filth@19@ and @18@The Man in the Wooden Hat@19@ 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. @18@Last Friends, @19@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. @3@@2@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? @3@@2@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.@3@

Product details

• Authors: Jane Gardam, Gardam Jane
• Publisher: Abacus
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.03.2014
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9780349000169
• ISBN: 978-0-349-00016-9
• Pages: 256
• Dimensions (packing): 13 x 19.8 x 1.7 cm
• Series: ABACUS; Old Filth > Vol.3; Old Filth > 3
• Subjects: Comedy, Empire, British, FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Friendship, Relationships, FICTION / Classics, Love, Marriage, FICTION / Psychological, Booker Prize, FICTION / Satire, Fiction, FICTION / Legal, Historical, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, Friendship, QC, Hong Kong, Humour, Orange Prize, Literary, Ageing, Novel, Lawyer, award-winning, rival, prize-winning