The book
A Best Book of the Year choice by:
The New York Times Book Review
The Washington Post (Jonathan Yardley)
The San Francisco Chronicle
New York Magazine
The Globe & Mail
Slate
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 his life, from birth in colonial Malaya, to Wales, where he is sent as a “Raj orphan,” to Oxford, his career and marriage, encapsulates a large part of the 20th century.
The author
Jane Gardam
Jane Gardam has been twice awarded the Whitbread Prize and was also a Booker prize finalist. She is winner of the David Higham Prize, the Royal Society for Literature’s Winifred Holtby Prize, the Katherine Mansfield Prize, and the Silver Pen Award from PEN. Her novels include God on the Rocks, shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Old Filth, finalist for the Orange Prize; The Man in the Wooden Hat, finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Last Friends, finalist for the Folio Award. She lives in the south of England near the sea.
In 1999 Jane Gardam was awarded the Heywood Hill Literary Prize in recognition of a distinguished literary career.
Press
- Jun 24 2016
The 75 Best Books of the Past 75 Years
— Parade - Aug 31 2015
Michele Zackeim of SVA's Summer Reading Friday Picks: "“Every character is marvelously intricate and sated with lop-sided, yet sane identities." - Jul 28 2015
Jane Gardam won the Charleston-Chichestor Award for Lifetime’s Excellence in Short Fiction on July 16th and will be presented the award on September 27th! - Jul 27 2015
ENCORE POST:Q&A with Jane Gardam - Jul 15 2014
Author Exposure: Author Robin Black cites Jane Gardam as influence - Jul 13 2014
Head Butler: "It’s worth the price of the book just to read that paragraph."