The Man in the Wooden Hat

The Man in the Wooden Hat

By Jane Gardam

Pages

288

Rating

4.06

Year

2009

ContemporaryFictionHistorical FictionFamily Life FictionLiteratureBritish Literature

Description

Old Filth was Eddie's story. The Man in the Wooden Hat is the history of his marriage told from the perspective of his wife, Betty, a character 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 was already a successful barrister, handsome, fast becoming rich, in need of a wife but unaccustomed to romance. A perfect English couple of the late 1940s.

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