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A genuine masterpiece - funny, brilliant and wise - Old Filth is now reissued with a new cover.

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A genuine masterpiece - funny, brilliant and wise - Old Filth is now reissued with a new cover.

About the Author

Jane Gardam is the only writer to have been twice awarded the Whitbread/Costa Prize for Best Novel of the Year, for The Queen of the Tambourine and The Hollow Land. She also holds a Heywood Hill Literary Prize for a lifetime's contribution to the enjoyment of literature. She is the author of five volumes of acclaimed stories: Black Faces, White Faces (David Higham Prize and the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize); The Pangs of Love (Katherine Mansfield Prize); Going into a Dark House (Silver Pen Award from PEN); Missing the Midnight; and The People on Privilege Hill. Her novels include God on the Rocks, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Faith Fox; The Flight of the Maidens; the bestselling Old Filth, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2005; The Man in the Wooden Hat; and Last Friends. Jane Gardam was born in Yorkshire. She now lives in east Kent.

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A magnificent, deeply moving and compassionate portrait of an era and a sentimental education. Please read it - Daily MailBeautiful, vivid and defiantly funny - The TimesThis novel is surely Gardam's masterpiece. On the human level, it is one of the most moving fictions I have read for years . . . This is the rare novel that drives its reader forward while persistently waylaying and detaining by the sheer beauty and inventiveness of its style. One must savour every phrase. The marriage of quirky eccentricity and psychological authenticity is a Gardam technique, but here her cunning wit, moving deftly between scenes and eras, displays the tragedy of a vintage world forever passing away - GuardianWhat a spiky brilliant sledgehammer of a novel is Jane Gardam's Old Filth - Patrick NessShe does fiction as it should be done, with confidence and insight - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, praise for The StoriesI recommend it wholeheartedly for its economy, breadth of narrative, and its insight, humour and pathos - Mail on Sunday

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