false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168791569m/37060.jpg 37060 4 "Jane Gardam's beautiful, vivid and defiantly funny novel is a must."<i>The Times</i> "Gardam's superb new novel is surely her masterpiece . . . one of the most moving fictions I have read in years . . . This is the rare novel that drives its readers forward while persistently waylaying and detaining by the sheer beauty and inventiveness of it style." <i>The Guardian</i> "The Whitbread winner scores again with a compelling novel based, in part, on the early life of Rudyard Kipling.<i>Time Out</i> Sir Edward Feathers has progressed from struggling young barrister to wealthy expatriate lawyer to distinguished retired judge, living out his last days in comfortable seclusion in Dorset. The engrossing and moving account of his life, from birth in colonial Malaya, to Wales, where he is sent as a "Raj orphan," to Oxford, his career and marriage, parallels much of the 20th century's torrid and twisted history. Jane Gardam</b> lives with her husband and three children in England. She has won Katherine Mansfield Award, the PEN Macmillan Silver Pen Award, the Whitbread Novel Award (twice), and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She was recently awarded the Heywood Hill Literary Prize in recognition of a distinguished literary career.</p> 36965 2005 Old Filth total:383|5:114|4:174|3:72|2:19|1:4| 383 1524 696 121 4 2 false false Tue Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 13:17:34 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 02 08:06:50 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 15 08:45:26 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 08:48:59 -0800 2008 0 1 false false Sat Nov 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Apr 02 06:11:18 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 06:16:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 3 false false Fri Dec 07 01:40:47 -0800 2007 Tue Feb 26 02:11:00 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 1 false false Fri Jan 30 12:21:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 12:21:13 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Dec 11 20:51:45 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 20:56:30 -0800 2008
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