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The Man in the Wooden Hat

Jane Gardam

Narrator Bill Wallace

Publisher: Recorded Books

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Acclaimed as Jane Gardam’s masterpiece, Old Filth is a lyrical novel that recalls the fully lived life of Sir EdwardFeathers. The Man in the Wooden Hat is the history of his marriage told from the perspective of his wife, Betty, acharacter as vivid and enchanting as Filth himself.They met in Hong Kong after the war. Betty had spent the duration in a Japanese internment camp. Filth wasalready a successful barrister, handsome, fast becoming rich, in need of a wife but unaccustomed to romance. A perfectEnglish couple of the late 1940s.As a portrait of a marriage, with all the bittersweet secrets and surprising fulfillment of the fifty-year union of tworemarkable people, this novel is a triumph. The Man in the Wooden Hat is fiction of a very high order from a greatnovelist working at the pinnacle of her considerable power.
Duration: about 7 hours (06:50:31)
Publishing date: 2020-09-15; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2009. Copyright Statment: —