# The Man In The Wooden Hat

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- Authors: [Jane Gardam](https://www.bookquiver.com/jane-gardam)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2013-01-17

## Description

'It's a cliche to compare novelists to Jane Austen, but in the case of Jane Gardam it happens to be true. Her diamond-like prose, her understanding of the human heart, her formal inventiveness and her sense of what it is to be alive - young, old, lonely, in love - never fades' Amanda Craig 'Her work, like Sylvia Townsend Warner's, has that appealing combination of elegance, erudition and flinty wit' Patrick Gale Filth (Failed In London, Try Hong Kong) is a successful lawyer when he marries Elisabeth in Hong Kong soon after the War. Reserved, immaculate and courteous, Filth finds it hard to demonstrate his emotions. But Elisabeth is different - a free spirit. She was brought up in the Japanese Internment Camps, which killed both her parents but left her with a lust for survival and an affinity with the Far East. No wonder she is attracted to Filth's hated rival at the Bar - the brash, forceful Veneering. Veneering has a Chinese wife and an adored son - and no difficulty whatsoever in demonstrating his emotions . . . How Elisabeth turns into Betty and whether she remains loyal to stolid Filth or is swept up by caddish Veneering, makes for a page-turning plot in a perfect novel which is full of surprises and revelations, as well as the humour and eccentricites for which Jane Gardam's writing is famous.

## Editions

### The Man In The Wooden Hat

- Publisher: little_brown_audio
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-0553-245-7
- Published: 2015-06-04
- Language: en_GB

### The Man In The Wooden Hat

- Publisher: abacus
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0552-233-5
- Published: 2013-01-17
- Language: en_GB