The Man in the Wooden Hat - by Jane Gardam (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A portrait of a marriage, with all the bittersweet secrets and surprising fulfillment of the 50-year union of two remarkable people, "The Man in the Wooden Hat" is fiction of a very high order from the author of "Old Filth."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Second in the Old Filth trilogy. "An astute, subtle depiction of marriage . . . absolutely wonderful" (<i>The Washington Post</i>).</b> <p/>Acclaimed as Jane Gardam's masterpiece, <i>Old Filth</i> is a lyrical novel that recalls the fully lived life of Sir Edward Feathers. <em>The Man in the Wooden Hat</em> is the history of his marriage told from the perspective of his wife, Betty, a character as vivid and enchanting as Filth himself.<br>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.<br>As a portrait of a marriage, with all the bittersweet secrets and surprising fulfillment of the fifty-year union of two remarkable people, <em>The Man in the Wooden Hat</em> is a triumph. 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, <i>Old Filth</i>, so compelling and thoroughly satisfying. <p/>"Funny and affecting . . . It's remarkable."--<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>"The latest occasion to celebrate Gardam . . . [a] superb novel."--Maureen Corrigan, <i>NPR</i> <p/>"Told with quintessentially British humor . . . Gardam's prose is witty and precise."--<i>Publishers Weekly</i> (starred review) <p/>"It's magnificent. . . . Funny, intelligent and immensely moving."--<i>Kirkus Reviews</i></p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Jane Gardam has twice won the Whitbread Award, for <b>The Hollow Land</b>, and <b>Queen of the Tambourine</b>. She is also the author of <b>God on the Rocks</b>, which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and most recently, <b>Faith Fox</b>.
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