Jane Gardam
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...See more
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. See less
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Jane Gardam book reviews
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The Man in the Wooden Hat
The Story Of Betty Feathers
This 2009 novel by Jane Gardam tells the story of Elizabeth Macintosh and her long marriage to Sir Edward Feathers, who is commonly known as "Old Filth". The name is off-putting in approaching the ... Read More
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The Stories of Jane Gardam
Addicted to Jane Gardam books
by Sarah A, Jan 13, 2018
Why oh why did it take me so long to discover Jane Gardam? Stumbled upon a copy of "Old Filth" this past summer and since then I've been completely hooked, buying as many of her works as I can afford ... Read More
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A Long Way from Verona
British School Girl
by Mary P, Aug 21, 2014
The ambivalent, angst-ridden nature of a teenage schoolgirl who is unsure of her ability to be a writer is amusingly described in this well-written book by Jane Gardham. Read More
