Gardam, Jane

Old filth by Jane Gardam ( Book )
35 editions published between 2004 and 2014 in English and held by 1,579 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"FILTH is a lawyer with a practice in the Far East. A few remember that his nickname stands for Failed In London Try Hong Kong. But Old Filth is not as pompous as people imagine, and his past contains many secrets and dark hiding places" -- publisher

The man in the wooden hat by Jane Gardam ( Book )
21 editions published between 2009 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,322 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern literature. 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 1940s. As a portrait of a marriage, with all the bittersweet secrets and surprising fulfillment of the 50-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

The flight of the maidens by Jane Gardam ( Book )
22 editions published between 1987 and 2002 in English and held by 1,314 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The Flight of the Maidens" is an award-winning novelist's captivating look at postwar England and a summer that changes the lives of three schoolgirls on the brink of womanhood and a new world. An award-winning novelist's captivating look at postwar England & a summer that changes the lives of three schoolgirls on the brink of womanhood & a new world

God on the rocks by Jane Gardam ( Book )
17 editions published between 1978 and 2011 in English and held by 1,195 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Originally published in Great Britain in 1978, the novel describes Margaret Marsh's coming of age one summer between the world wars. Caught in the backwash of a fervently religious father, a mother bitterly nostalgic for what might have been, the tea and sympathy of some thoroughly secular neighbors and the bawdy jokes of her nanny Lydia, Margaret's world hurtles towards a shattering moment of truth. Drama, tragedy and a touch of farce lend themselves to Gardam's typically eloquent prose. With subtlety and precision, God on the Rocks provides an intimate portrait of the tensions that divide men and women, present and past, and the love and sorrow that lingers throughout. --From publisher description

The queen of the tambourine by Jane Gardam ( Book )
25 editions published between 1991 and 2008 in English and held by 1,151 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In England, a housewife eggs on another to liberate herself and when the other abandons her family to travel the world pursues her with letters. The missives, a jumble of apologies, condemnation, admiration, envy and confessions of her own unhappiness, portray the loneliness and boredom of suburban life

A long way from Verona by Jane Gardam ( Book )
30 editions published between 1971 and 2013 in English and held by 978 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A young girl aspiring to be a writer recounts her experiences growing up in England during the Second World War

The people on Privilege Hill : and other stories by Jane Gardam ( Book )
17 editions published between 2007 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 952 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
These 14 stories from English novelist Gardam (Old Filth) follow the last of the intrepid, stiff upper lip WWII generation of British ladies and gentlemen. 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

Crusoe's daughter by Jane Gardam ( Book )
27 editions published between 1985 and 2012 in English and held by 793 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In 1904, six-year-old Polly Flint is sent to live with her aunt{u2019}s in a house by the sea. Orphaned shortly thereafter, Polly will spend the next eighty years stranded in this quiet corner of the world as 20th century rages in the background. Throughout 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

Last friends by Jane Gardam ( Book )
10 editions published between 2013 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 718 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The marriage of Edward Feathers and Betty as seen through the eyes of Edwards friend and Betty's lover Terry Veneering

The hollow land by Jane Gardam ( Book )
14 editions published between 1981 and 2001 in English and held by 706 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Young Harry Bateman comes from London with his family year after year to spend the summer at Light Trees Farm in the Cumbrian fells country, until he feels that it is his real home