Jane Gardam
2) Last friends
Author
Series
Old Filth trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The marriage of Edward Feathers and Betty as seen through the eyes of Edward's friend and Betty's lover Terry Veneering"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Originally published in Great Britain in 1978, the novel describes Margaret Marsh's coming of age one summer between the world wars. Caught in the backwash of a fervently religious father, a mother bitterly nostalgic for what might have been, the tea and sympathy of some thoroughly secular neighbors and the bawdy jokes of her nanny Lydia, Margaret's world hurtles towards a shattering moment of truth. Drama, tragedy and a touch of farce lend themselves...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"I ought to tell you at the beginning that I am not quite normal having had a violent experience at the age of nine. Jessica Vye's violent experience colors her schooldays and her reaction to the world around her - a confining world of Order Marks, wartime restrictions, viyella dresses, nicely-restrained essays and dusty tea shops. For Jessica she has been told that she is beyond all possible doubt, a born writer"--Jacket.
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