Jane Gardam
Titles: Old Filth, The People on Privilege Hill
Category: Fiction
Agent:Bruce Hunter
Film Agent: Nicky Lund
Related News: Jane Gardam's OLD FILTH shortlisted for Orange Prize for Fiction 2005 (31/05/05)
Jane Gardam has won the Whitbread Award twice, for THE QUEEN OF THE TAMBOURINES and THE HOLLOW LAND. GOD ON THE ROCKS was a runner-up for the Booker Prize.
She lives in Yorkshire and in Kent. She is married with three grown-up children.
The People on Privilege Hill
Category: Fiction
UK Publisher: Random House
UK Publication Date: 01/11/07
Other Rights: US: Europa
Jane Gardam's delightful short stories range from the Lake District to Dorset; from Wimbledon, where an old Victorian mansion has been converted into a home for unmarried mothers, to wartime London, where a hospital is the scene of a job interview in the middle of the Blitz.
Two of the stories are ghost stories; and fans of Gardam's most recent novel, the bestselling OLD FILTH will be overjoyed to encounter Filth himself and his ancient enemy and sparring partner, Veneering, among the umbrellas at a luncheon party on a soaking wet day.
Jane Gardam is a writer at the height of her powers, well-known for her caustic wit, free-wheeling imagination, love of humanity and wicked powers of observation - and for the hint of the bizarre and the surreal that she brings to her fiction. Her new collection of short stories is a delicious treat.
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