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LAST FRIENDS - JANE GARDAM KARTONIERT (TB)

'She does fiction as it should be done  with confidence and insight' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
'[Gardam] writes about love  death  loneliness  money  and madness with such gentle ferocity
that she is often compared to Jane Austen  though a closer analogy is with Samuel Beckett. The
Old Filth trilogy should be read by anyone who has ever been interested in how we become who we
are' Amanda Craig  Independent on Sunday 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  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. 'Her writing is immaculately elegant and this humorous  melancholic final volume
establishes the trilogy as a modern classic' Kate Saunders  The Times

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