Jane Gardam

England 1904 - Polly, mit sechs Jahren schon eine Pflegefamilien-Veteranin, kommt zu ihren frommen Tanten in das gelbe Haus am Meer...

Es ist Abscheu auf den ersten Blick, die Edward Feathers und Terry Veneering, die glänzendsten Juristen des Empire, ein Leben lang verbindet...

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....

In prose vibrant and witty, The Queen of the Tambourine traces the emotional breakdown - and eventual restoration - of Eliza Peabody....

Faith Fox has led a life full of heartbreak and abandonment, lacking in simplicity and love - and she's not even one week old....

Last Friends depicts the marriage of Edward Feathers and Betty as seen through the eyes of Edward’s friend and Betty's lover Terry Veneering....

In 1904, six-year-old Polly Flint is sent to live with her aunt’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....

A young girl aspiring to be a writer recounts her experiences growing up in England during the Second World War. An English schoolgirl has problems, many of them funny, in her attempts to grow up socially....

Manchmal vergisst Betty, dass sie keine Chinesin ist, so selbstverständlich nah ist ihr das Land, dessen Sprache sie seit Kindertagen beherrscht...

Alles an Edward Feathers ist ohne Fehl und Tadel - seine Garderobe, seine Manieren und sein Ruf als glänzender Anwalt. Nun ist er alt...

Jessica sagt bedingungslos und in den unmöglichsten Momenten die Wahrheit. Ihr Widerwille gegen Anpassung bringt sie in dem kleinen englischen Badeort ständig...

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...

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...

Ein flirrender Sommerroman an der englischen Küste von der großen Erzählerin Jane Gardamy. Es ist Sommer, und Margaret ist acht und schwer...

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

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

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....