Last Friends: From the Orange Prize shortlisted author

Synopsis

'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'Her work, like Sylvia Townsend Warner's, has that appealing combination of elegance, erudition and flinty wit' Patrick Gale'Sharp, humane, generous and wonderfully funny, she is one of our very finest writers' Hilary MantelShortlisted 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 with Terence Veneering, Filth's great rival in work and - though it was never spoken of - in love. Veneering's were not the usual beginnings of an establishment silk: the son of a Russian acrobat marooned in northeast England and a devoted local girl, he escapes the war to emerge in the Far East as a man of panache, success and fame. But, always, at the stuffy English Bar he is treated with suspicion: where did this blond, louche, brilliant Slav come from? Veneering, Filth and their friends tell a tale of love, friendship, grace, the bittersweet experiences of a now-forgotten Empire and the disappointments and consolations of age.

Copyright:

2013

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781405532464

Related ISBNs:

9780349000169

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group Limited

Date of Addition:

03/03/22

Copyrighted By:

Jane Gardam

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Narrated By:

Bill Wallis

Categories:

Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family, Humor, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

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