Jane Gardam - Böcker

Sitt smeknamn, eller kanske öknamn, har han hittat på själv, med all den självironi en man uppväxt i utkanterna av det engelska imperiet kan uppbringa: Gamle Filth (Failed In London, Try Hongkong). Sir Edward Feathers var en gång en uppburen advok...

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I den tredje och avslutande delen av trilogin om imperiets barn skildrar Jane Gardam advokaten Terry Veneerings liv och hans mycket laddade förhållande till kollegan och konkurrenten Sir Edward Feathers, vars hustru Betty alltid varit föremålet fö...

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A genuine masterpiece - funny, brilliant and wise.

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I den andra delen av Jane Gardams trilogi om imperiets barn är det Betty Feathers som står i centrum. Uppvuxen i Kina, tidigt föräldralös och utan någon verklig riktning i livet möter hon den engelske advokaten Edward Feathers, gifter sig och förb...

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'Gardam writes about love, death, loneliness, money and madness with gentle ferocity. The Old Filth trilogy should be read by anyone who has ever been interested in how we become who we are' Amanda Craig, Independent on Sunday 'Sharp, humane, gene...

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Sitt smeknamn, eller kanske öknamn, har han hittat på själv, med all den självironi en man uppväxt i utkanterna av det engelska imperiet kan uppbringa: Gamle Filth (Failed In London, Try Hongkong). Sir Edward Feathers var en gång en uppburen advok...

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'Her territory isn't young or old; it's the heart-and brain-matter of people, their desires and worries and fantasies and intricate interactions. All of this is set capably against a particular landscape, and the result tends to be vivid and real....

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Another masterpiece from Jane Gardam and the second novel in the Old Filth trilogy.

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Jane Gardam's funny and wise masterpiece, reissued with a new introduction by Nina Stibbe'Old Filth has stayed with me for years' SATHNAM SANGHERA'Sharp, humane, generous and wonderfully funny' HILARY MANTEL'The last great book I read' RACHEL WEIS...

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'Jane Gardam is a wonderful writer. Her understanding of character and use of language are both remarkable' The Times 'A Long Way from Verona is a brilliant, witty, and agonizingly true-to-life novel' Times Literary Supplement 'A fiercly funny and...

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A short story by Jane Gardam from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.In 'It's a Man's Life, Ladies', a young woman tells the story of her grandmother's memories of married life.Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full c...

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'Excellently done . . . Manic delusions have never been so persuasive . . . Very moving when it is not being exceedingly funny' Anita Brookner 'An ingenious, funny, satirical, sad story . . . Vivid and poignant' Independent on Sunday 'Wickedly com...

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A rather mysterious old clergyman is dead, and his most adoring child, sixteen-year-old Athene is desolate. A statuesque beauty, greatly admired, she is also lonely, untouchable and living a secret life of fairly dangerous fantasy. Athene's mother...

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Molly Fielding's mother had been a terrible woman...' A terrible woman indeed. One need only to look at the old sepia photograph to see a vision of nastiness. The look of cunning, the self-satisfied smile, the aura of hauteur as she watches the li...

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'One of the funniest, most entertaining, most unusual stories about young love' Evening Standard Marigold Green calls herself 'hideous, quaint and barmy'. Other people calle her Bilgewater, a corruption of Bill's daughter. Growing up motherless in...

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With her customary accuracy, Jane Gardam reveals the extraordinariness of ordinary people as she deals with the pangs of love- fulfilled or hopeless, sexual or spiritual, tortured or hilarious- in these eleven stories. Paraded here are ladies with...

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A loosely connected sequence of stories, offering vignettes of human foibles from the holiday island of Jamaica. Mrs Filling sees something nasty in the midday sun; an English lawyer dallies while his wife goes mad in England; sexuality flares and...

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Jane Austen's love life- long the subject of speculation- is finally, delightfully dealt with in the title story of this collection. Many of the other stories, like 'The Sidmouth Letters,' bring together past and present- with sometimes hilarious,...

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'A formidably intelligent, gentle, comic genius' A.N. Wilson 'Gardam is a brilliantly subtle comedian who can keep the reader enraptured until the last page' The Times Set during the post-war summer of 1946, The Flight of the Maidens follows the g...

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'Gardam's prose is so economical that no moment she describes is either gratuitous or wasted' The New Yorker It is a wet day in Dorset, and walking to a luncheon party is Sir Edward Feathers QC, followed by two elderly friends: his scruffy neighbo...

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'Touching, terribly sad, funny: a smashing novel' The Times In 1904, six-year-old Polly Flint is sent by her sea captain father to live with her two holy aunts in a house by the sea on England's northeast coast. The house is so close to the sea it...

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'She does fiction as it should be done, with confidence and insight' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 'Terribly funny & clever ... the best thing she's done' Victoria Wood 'Brilliant on sex, brilliant on bereavement and death, brilliant on god, brilliant ...

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'A meticulously observed modern classic' Independent During one glorious summer between the wars, the realities of life and the sexual ritual dance of the adult world creep into the life of young Margaret Marsh. Her father, preaching the doctrine ...

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The flag that is shown, literally and metaphorically, by these characters is always the Union Jack. Gardam's stories are acutely observed social commentaries on Englishness, its weaknesses and its illusions.

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'Pure delight' The Times Throughout her career, prize-winning novelist Jane Gardam has been writing glorious short stories, each one hallmarked with all the originality, poignancy, wry comedy and narrative brilliance of her longer fiction. Passion...

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The flag that is shown, literally and metaphorically, by these characters is always the Union Jack. Gardam's stories are acutely observed social commentaries on Englishness, its weaknesses and its illusions.

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Jane Austen's love life - long the subject of speculation - is finally, delightfully dealt with in the title story of this collection. Many of the other stories, like 'The Sidmouth Letters,' bring together past and present - with sometimes hilario...

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Her territory isn't young or old; it's the heart-and brain-matter of people, their desires and worries and fantasies and intricate interactions. All of this is set capably against a particular landscape, and the result tends to be vivid and real. ...

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'A meticulously observed modern classic' IndependentDuring one glorious summer between the wars, the realities of life and the sexual ritual dance of the adult world creep into the life of young Margaret Marsh. Her father, preaching the doctrine o...

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'Gardam writes about love, death, loneliness, money and madness with gentle ferocity. The Old Filth trilogy should be read by anyone who has ever been interested in how we become who we are' Amanda Craig, Independent on Sunday'Sharp, humane, gener...

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