Last Friends

Gardam writes about love, death, loneliness, money and madness with gentle ferocity. The Old Filth trilogy should be read by anyone who has ever been interested in how we become who we areAmanda Craig, Independent on Sunday

Sharp, humane, generous and wonderfully funny, she is one of our very finest writers Hilary Mantel

This humorous, melancholic final volume establishes the trilogy as a modern classic Kate Saunders, The Times

Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat told with bristling tenderness and black humour the stories of that Titan of the Hong Kong law courts, Old Filth QC, and his clever, misunderstood wife Betty. Last Friends, the final volume of this trilogy, picks up with Terence Veneering, Filths great rival in work and -though it was never spoken of - in love.

Veneering, Filth and their friends tell a tale of love, friendship, grace, the bittersweet experiences of a now-forgotten Empire and the disappointments and consolations of age.