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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 Internment Camps, which killed both her parents, but left her with a lust for survival and an affinity with the Far East. No wonder she is attracted to Filth's hated rival at the Bar - the brash, forceful Veneering. Veneering has a Chinese wife and an adored son - and no difficulty whatsoever in demonstrating his emotions . . .
How Elisabeth turns into Betty and whether she remains loyal to stolid Filth or swept up by caddish Veneering, make for a page-turning plot, in a perfect novel which is full of surprises and revelations, as well as the humour and eccentricites for which Jane Gardam's writing is famous.
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`[a] delicious new novel...Gardam's writing is lyrical and never strains...brimming with a celebratory attitude to language.' --Financial Times
`Hilarious but also deeply touching' --Reader's Digest
`an extraordinarily rich account of a long marriage, the restraints, the compromises and the sacrifices' --The Guardian
`Delicious and poignant...there are rich complexities of chronology, settings and characters, all manipulated with marvellous dexterity' --The Spectator
`Gardam's writing is like painting on glass: vivid and translucent'. --Independent
"...The characters tell their own stories through flashes of thought and perfectly pitched dialogue..."
--The Independant on Sunday
`a supremely literary and youthful book' --Sunday Times
"full of wit and precision"
--The Oldie
"stylish, Woolfian examination of a long marriage"
--Guardian
`a novel of exhilarating beauty and intelligence' --Seven magazine in Sunday Telegraph
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`Hilarious but also deeply touching' --Reader's Digest
`an extraordinarily rich account of a long marriage, the restraints, the compromises and the sacrifices' --The Guardian
`Delicious and poignant...there are rich complexities of chronology, settings and characters, all manipulated with marvellous dexterity' --The Spectator
`Gardam's writing is like painting on glass: vivid and translucent'. --Independent
"...The characters tell their own stories through flashes of thought and perfectly pitched dialogue..."
--The Independant on Sunday
`a supremely literary and youthful book' --Sunday Times
"full of wit and precision"
--The Oldie
"stylish, Woolfian examination of a long marriage"
--Guardian
`a novel of exhilarating beauty and intelligence' --Seven magazine in Sunday Telegraph
* A box of delights - another masterpiece from Jane Gardam and a companion novel to OLD FILTH
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- PublisherAbacus
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0349118469
- ISBN 13 9780349118468
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: New. This book ties in with Jane Gardam's "Old Filth" It is written from the perspective of Filth's wife Betty. She is an orphan of the Japanese internment camps. a clever code breaker and drawn to Filth's hated rival at the Bar. Seller Inventory # DADAX0349118469
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