Gardams prose is so economical that no moment she describes is either gratuitous or wasted The New YorkerIt is a wet day in Dorset, and walking to a luncheon party is Sir Edward Feathers QC, followed by two elderly friends his scruffy neighbour and sparring partner, Veneering, and FiscalSmith, the meanest lawyer ever to make a fortune at the Bar. Fans of Jane Gardams bestselling novel, Old Filth, will be delighted to encounter Filth, now almost ninety, making his immaculate way to Privilege Hill, named perhaps for the PriveLieges who arrived with the Normans, but more probably for the village privies. Ranging from a Victorian mansion converted into a home for unmarried mothers to a wartime hospital in the middle of the Blitz, from ghost stories to brilliant observations of love and loneliness in their various manifestations including, in Pangbourne, a woman who falls in love with a gorilla to reflections on the haphazard nature of intellect and memories in The Last Reunion, the stories in this collection mix Jane Gardams trademark sardonic wit with a delicate tenderness and a touch of the surreal.

Binding: Paperback;224 pages; Publisher: Hachette UK Distribution; Classification: FYB; Weight: 304 g; Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 15

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