• The Man in the Wooden Hat

  • By: Jane Gardam
  • Narrated by: Bill Wallace
  • Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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The Man in the Wooden Hat

By: Jane Gardam
Narrated by: Bill Wallace
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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 pause-resisting plot in a perfect novel which is full of surprises and revelations, as well as the humour and eccentricities for which Jane Gardam's writing is famous.

©2009 Jane Gardam (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

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Having previously swooned on reading the trilogy of books I succumbed again to the magnificent reading by Bill Wallace. What a range of voicing and subtle shading of emphasis. I’d say reading/hearing the entire trilogy in order is a must.

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