Gardam, Jane

Overview

Works:	116 works in 734 publications in 9 languages and 19,081 library holdings
Genres:	Fiction Juvenile works Psychological fiction Short stories Legal stories Bildungsromans Domestic fiction Romance fiction Historical fiction War stories
Roles:	Author, Narrator, Author of introduction
Classifications:	PR6057.A623, 823.914

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Jane Gardam

British novelists since 1960 [nineteen hundred and sixty]( Book )
Narrative and the development of the literary reader : a study of narrative techniques through a consideration of the works of Jane Gardam by Claire Hiller( Book )
Dictionary of literary biography. British children's writers since 1960( Book )
Stories are for telling and foretelling : Jane Gardam's use of narrative in the depiction of her characters by Patricia A Good( )
The man in the wooden hat by Jane Gardam : notes by Vicki Booth( Book )

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Most widely held works by Jane Gardam

Old filth by Jane Gardam( Book )

57 editions published between 2004 and 2017 in 6 languages and held by 1,688 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 )

34 editions published between 2009 and 2016 in 7 languages and held by 1,432 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 queen of the tambourine by Jane Gardam( Book )

41 editions published between 1990 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 1,267 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

The flight of the maidens by Jane Gardam( Book )

23 editions published between 1987 and 2009 in English and held by 1,190 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 )

25 editions published between 1978 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 1,150 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 hollow land by Jane Gardam( Book )

22 editions published between 1981 and 2015 in English and Spanish and held by 1,033 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 free country, until he feels that it is his real home

A long way from Verona by Jane Gardam( Book )

36 editions published between 1971 and 2013 in English and Finnish and held by 1,026 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A young girl aspiring to be a writer recounts her experiences growing up in England during World War II

Last friends by Jane Gardam( Book )

16 editions published between 2013 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,001 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 people on Privilege Hill : and other stories by Jane Gardam( Book )

22 editions published between 2007 and 2014 in English and held by 891 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

Faith Fox by Jane Gardam( Book )

27 editions published between 1996 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 869 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Emotionally abandoned by her father and maternal grandmother when her birth results in her mother's death, young Faith Fox is raised by an unlikely group, including the owners of a commune and her bickering paternal grandparents

Crusoe's daughter by Jane Gardam( Book )

34 editions published between 1912 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 807 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

Bilgewater by Jane Gardam( Book )

30 editions published between 1976 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 791 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Relates the joys and sorrows of adolescence as experienced by a young girl growing up in a boy's boarding school

The stories by Jane Gardam( Book )

11 editions published between 2014 and 2015 in English and held by 691 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The stories in this collection showcase Gardam's stylistic versatility and psychological insight. Throughout the collection she probes the inner lives, secret desires, and hidden pasts of her characters

The summer after the funeral by Jane Gardam( Book )

20 editions published between 1973 and 2011 in English and held by 578 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Following her father's death, a sixteen-year-old English girl spends an unsettling summer convinced that she has lived before as Emily Bronte

A few fair days by Jane Gardam( Book )

9 editions published between 1971 and 1998 in English and Undetermined and held by 479 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Recounts the experiences of a little girl growing up in a seaside town in Yorkshire during the years between the two world wars

The Sidmouth letters by Jane Gardam( Book )

21 editions published between 1980 and 2016 in English and held by 413 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Through the dolls' house door by Jane Gardam( Book )

6 editions published between 1987 and 1991 in English and held by 399 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Two girls lose interest in playing with their doll house after moving from London to Wales but the dolls in the house amuse themselves by telling stories about their exciting pasts

Bridget and William by Jane Gardam( Book )

25 editions published between 1980 and 2006 in 3 languages and held by 318 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Bridget's father was against her pony, William, from the day he arrived, but after the night of the great snow storm William proved that he, more than anyone, had a right to his place in the family

Showing the flag by Jane Gardam( Book )

13 editions published between 1989 and 2016 in English and Spanish and held by 248 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A collection of short stories which portray the English character in many ways and situations

The Pineapple Bay Hotel by Jane Gardam( Book )

2 editions published in 1976 in English and held by 237 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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