Jane Gardam

'It's a cliche to compare novelists to Jane Austen, but in the case of Jane Gardam it happens to be true. Her diamond-like prose, her understanding of the human heart, her formal inventiveness and her sense of what it is to be alive - young, old, lonely, in love - never fades' Amanda Craig 'I...

Acclaimed as Jane Gardam's masterpiece, Old Filth is a lyrical series that recalls the fully lived life of Sir Edward Feathers. 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...

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...

Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, where he earned the nickname Old Filth (FILTH being an acronym for Failed In London Try Hong Kong) to his final working days as a respected judge at the English bar. Yet through it all he has...

When sweet, healthy, hearty Holly Fox dies suddenly in childbirth, the Surrey village reverberates with shock. She leaves behind a helpless, silent husband and a tiny daughter, Faith....

It is a wet day in Dorset, and walking to a luncheon party is Sir Edward Feathers QC, followed by two elderly friends....

Shortlisted for the 2014 Folio Prize. Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat 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. Last Friends, the final volume of this trilogy, picks up...

Marigold Green calls herself ‘hideous, quaint and barmy’. Other people call her Bilgewater, a corruption of Bill’s daughter....

This delightful novel describes the post-war summer of 1946 - and follows the growing-up of three young women in the months between leaving school and taking up their scholarships at university....

Jessica Vye's 'violent experience' colours her schooldays and her reaction to the world around her....

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 and longing, metamorphosis and enchantment are Gardam's themes, and like...

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....

In 1904, when she was six, Polly Flint went to live with her two holy aunts at the yellow house by the marsh....

The barren, beautiful Cumbrian fells provide the bewitching setting for the adventures of Bill and Harry, two children who find wonder at every turn as they experience the Hollow Land. Everyday challenges give a daring edge to this rural work and play. There are mysteries to explore and uncover...

Eliza, 51, schreibt Briefe an Joan, die Nachbarin, die offenbar ihren Mann und ihre Kinder verlassen hat, und die sie eigentlich kaum kennt. Briefe mit besten Ratschlägen – voller ungeschminkter Wahrheiten, schlafwandlerisch sicher gesetzter Seitenhiebe und Exzentrik. Antwort bekommt Eliza...

Ein wundervoller Sommerroman - die Geschichte einer bedingungslosen Freundschaft London ist laut und anstrengend, die Batemans sehnen sich nach Ruhe und haben sich für den Sommer auf dem Land in Yorkshire eingemietet. Vor allem der Vater, ein nervöser Journalist, hofft auf Entspannung in der...

Das preisgekrönte Debüt der Bestsellerautorin – endlich auf Deutsch! Jessica sagt bedingungslos und in den unmöglichsten Momenten die Wahrheit. Ihr Widerwille gegen Anpassung bringt sie in dem kleinen englischen Badeort ständig in verquere Situationen. Sie hat genau eine Freundin – der...

Dass Jane Gardam hinreißende Romane schreibt, war eine der wunderbaren Entdeckungen der letzten Jahre. Nun gibt es einen weiteren Schatz zu heben, Gardams Erzählungen: Hetty, die Familienmutter, die bei der Begegnung mit ihrem ehemaligen Liebhaber in einen somnambulen Zustand gerät. Der...

Jane Gardam reveals again her brilliant diversity and deep understanding of the human condition....

Es ist Abscheu auf den ersten Blick, die Edward Feathers und Terry Veneering, die glänzendsten Juristen des Empire, ein Leben lang verbindet. Als ebenbürtige Gegner in zahllosen Prozessen hassen sie einander schon, bevor sie sich in dieselbe Frau verlieben. Und es wird ein Leben lang dauern...