JANE GARDAM

En las sugestivas colinas de Escocia, entre minas abandonadas y ríos subterráneos, dos amigos conocen increíbles historias y viven aventuras unas veces divertidas y otras arriesgadas. Uno es un chico del lugar; el otro un londinense cuya familia ha optado por el encanto de "la tierra hueca".

A short story by Jane Gardam from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre. In Its a Mans Life, Ladies, a young woman tells the story of her grandmothers memories of married life. Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader, I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and lasting relevance of Charlotte Brontes game-changing novel and its beloved narrator.

Edward Feathers, einst Kronanwalt in Hongkong, vollendeter Gentleman, und selbst mit achtzig noch ein schöner Mann, scheint ein mühelos erfolgreiches Leben gehabt zu haben, doch wer kannte ihn schon wirklich? Nicht einmal seiner Frau Betty hat er je erzählt, woher das Stottern kommt, das ihn in Augenblicken großer Aufregung noch immer überwältigt. Als Betty stirbt, bewahrt Feathers wie gewohnt Contenance. Doch eines Morgens setzt er sich ans Steuer seines Wagens und fährt los, das eigene Leben zu erkunden.

A delightful short story from Jane Gardam, revisting that Titan of the Hong Kong law courts, Edward Feathers (known to many as Old Filth) in the days after he loses his beloved wife, Betty.

A treasure trove of short stories from the beloved author of the Old Filth trilogy.

* A brilliant, witty and moving novel about keeping the faith in extreme adversity

RESUMEN

* A reissue of one of Jane Gardams best-loved novels

This funny and wise masterpiece is being reissued as one of five titles celebrating Abacuss 50th anniversary, with a new introduction from Nina Stibbe

A moving, Booker-shortlisted story of a girls coming of age

Another masterpiece from Jane Gardam and the second novel in the Old Filth trilogy.

With her customary accuracy, Jane Gardam reveals the extraordinariness of ordinary people as she deals with the pangs of love- fulfilled or hopeless, sexual or spiritual, tortured or hilarious- in these eleven stories.Paraded here are ladies with a thing about vicars, strange events happening in ornate downstairs lavatories (and in ornate upstairs ones), and the English abroad, desperate and dotty. The glum and impossible Edna haunts the supermarket- and dispenses an unlikely kiss of life. The younger sister of Hans Christian Andersens Little Mermaid declares her sibling very silly and turns her story on its tail, an old maid forms a curious liason with a tramp, and small moments of temptation fill hotel rooms as histories glance briefly off each other.