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The Man In The Wooden Hat
Jane Gardam
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Another masterpiece from Jane Gardam and the second novel in the Old Filth trilogy
'She does fiction as it should be done, with confidence and insight' CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
'Witty, subversive, moving' THE TIMES
'Full of the humour and eccentricity that have made Gardam one of the most enjoyable novelists writing today' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Old Filth told the story of Sir Edward (Eddie) Feathers QC, aka Filth, his colonial upbringing and career, his long and comfortable marriage, his rivalries and friendships. The Man in the Wooden Hat picks up these threads from the perspective of Filth's wife, Betty. An orphan of the Japanese internment camps, a free spirit, a clever code-breaker at Bletchley Park, Betty has her own secret passions. No wonder she is drawn to Filth's hated rival at the Bar, the brash, forceful Veneering.
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Praise for The Man In The Wooden Hat
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A supremely literary and youthful book - Sunday TimesGardam's writing is like painting on glass: vivid and translucent - IndependentWhat Gardam is particularly good at - and what made Old Filth so compelling - is creating for her characters fa ades of complete conventionality, which are then chipped away to reveal strange internal workings...But one need not be familiar with Filth's history to be moved by Betty's final summation of her long marriage...in a novel preoccupied by the fear of becoming old, anachronistic and obsolete, this late-flowering love stands as a reminder that time does not just decay, it ripens too - Olivia Laing, GuardianWhat a lot Jane Gardam knows about love and its accommodations; the rich contradictory play of desire and loyalty, the sudden storms of feeling that assail the edifice of a marriage. And how elegantly and intelligently and kindly she writes about the instinctive, tendril-like gropings of one human heart towards another - Jane Shilling, Telegraph
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