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Jane Gardam a publié une trentaine d’ouvrages et reçu plusieurs prix. Seule auteure à avoir obtenu deux fois le Whitbread Costa Prize du meilleur roman de l’année, elle a aussi été nommée pour le prestigieux Booker Prize en 1978 avec Dieu par-dessus bord. Reconnue parmi ses pairs, Gardam est Fellow de la Royal Society of Literature, et elle a été faite officier de l’Empire britannique en 2009.

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God On The Rocks

Jane Gardam

Abacus

2023-06-29

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'A meticulously observed modern classic' IndependentDuring one glorious summer between the wars, the realities of life and the sexual ritual dance of the adult world creep into the life of young Margaret Marsh. Her father, preaching the doctrine of...

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The Hollow Land Jane Gardam Her territory isn't young or old; it's the heart-and brain-matter of people, their desires and worries and fantasies and intricate interactions. All of this is set capably against a particular landscape, and the result tends to be vivid and real. Beautiful, like Willa... Editeur : Abacus Parution : 2020-08-06 ePub 3,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Sidmouth Letters Jane Gardam Jane Austen's love life - long the subject of speculation - is finally, delightfully dealt with in the title story of this collection. Many of the other stories, like 'The Sidmouth Letters,' bring together past and present - with sometimes hilarious, sometimes... Editeur : Abacus Parution : 2016-12-01 ePub 3,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Showing The Flag Jane Gardam The flag that is shown, literally and metaphorically, by these characters is always the Union Jack. Gardam's stories are acutely observed social commentaries on Englishness, its weaknesses and its illusions. Editeur : Abacus Parution : 2016-12-01 ePub 3,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Stories Jane Gardam Throughout her career, prize-winning novelist Jane Gardam has been writing glorious short stories, each one hallmarked with all the originality, poignancy, wry comedy and narrative brilliance of her longer fiction. Passion and longing, metamorphosis and enchantment are... Editeur : Little, Brown Book Group Parution : 2014-05-01 ePub 3,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Last Friends Jane Gardam 'It's a cliche to compare novelists to Jane Austen, but in the case of Jane Gardam it happens to be true. Her diamond-like prose, her understanding of the human heart, her formal inventiveness and her sense of what it is to be alive - young, old, lonely, in love - never... Editeur : Little, Brown Book Group Parution : 2013-04-02 ePub 5,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Facing the Music Jane Gardam 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. Editeur : Little, Brown Book Group Parution : 2013-04-02 ePub 3,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Going Into A Dark House Jane Gardam Molly Fielding's mother had been a terrible woman...'A terrible woman indeed. One need only to look at the old sepia photograph to see a vision of nastiness. The look of cunning, the self-satisfied smile, the aura of hauteur as she watches the little Italian... Editeur : Abacus Parution : 2013-02-07 ePub 3,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Flight Of The Maidens Jane Gardam 'A formidably intelligent, gentle, comic genius' A.N. Wilson'Gardam is a brilliantly subtle comedian who can keep the reader enraptured until the last page' The TimesSet during the post-war summer of 1946, The Flight of the Maidens follows the growing-up of three young... Editeur : Abacus Parution : 2013-01-17 ePub 3,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Missing The Midnight Jane Gardam Jane Gardam reveals again her brilliant diversity and deep understanding of the human condition. In 'Light', an evocative, lyrical piece of magic realism, a beautiful Himalayan girl defies the destiny laid out for her by her mother, but in so doing destroys the village... Editeur : Abacus Parution : 2013-01-17 ePub 3,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Old Filth Jane Gardam Jane Gardam's funny and wise masterpiece, reissued with a new introduction by Nina Stibbe'Old Filth has stayed with me for years' SATHNAM SANGHERA'Sharp, humane, generous and wonderfully funny' HILARY MANTEL'The last great book I read' RACHEL WEISZ 'Gardam's... Editeur : Abacus Parution : 2013-01-17 ePub 5,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The People On Privilege Hill Jane Gardam 'Gardam's 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,... Editeur : Abacus Parution : 2013-01-17 ePub 3,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Man In The Wooden Hat Jane Gardam 'It's a cliche to compare novelists to Jane Austen, but in the case of Jane Gardam it happens to be true. Her diamond-like prose, her understanding of the human heart, her formal inventiveness and her sense of what it is to be alive - young, old, lonely, in love - never... Editeur : Abacus Parution : 2013-01-17 ePub 5,49 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Crusoe's Daughter Jane Gardam 'Touching, terribly sad, funny: a smashing novel' The TimesIn 1904, six-year-old Polly Flint is sent by her sea captain father to live with her two holy aunts in a house by the sea on England's northeast coast. The house is so close to the sea it seems to toss like a... Editeur : Abacus Parution : 2012-03-01 ePub 3,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
A Long Way From Verona Jane Gardam I ought to tell you at the beginning thatI am not quite normal having had a violent experience at the age of nine'Jessica Vye's 'violent experience' colours her schooldays and her reaction to the world around her- a confining world of Order Marks, wartime restrictions,... Editeur : Abacus Parution : 2012-03-01 ePub 3,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Black Faces, White Faces Jane Gardam A loosely connected sequence of stories, offering vignettes of human foibles from the holiday island of Jamaica. Mrs Filling sees something nasty in the midday sun; an English lawyer dallies while his wife goes mad in England; sexuality flares and everywhere farce and... Editeur : Abacus Parution : 2012-03-01 ePub 3,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Pangs Of Love Jane Gardam 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,... Editeur : Abacus Parution : 2012-03-01 ePub 3,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Faith Fox Jane Gardam When sweet, healthy hearty Holly Fox dies suddenly in childbirth, the Surrey village whose pearl she was reverberates with shock. She leaves behind her a helpless, silent husband, and a tiny daughter, Faith. Everyone assumes Holly's loving and capable mother Thomasina... Editeur : Abacus Parution : 2012-03-01 ePub 3,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Bilgewater Jane Gardam 'One of the funniest, most entertaining, most unusual stories about young love' Evening Standard Marigold Green calls herself 'hideous, quaint and barmy'. Other people calle her Bilgewater, a corruption of Bill's daughter. Growing up motherless in a boys' school where... Editeur : Abacus Parution : 2012-03-01 ePub 3,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Queen Of The Tambourine Jane Gardam 'Very moving when it is not being exceedingly funny' Anita Brookner'Brilliant' Sunday TimesEliza Peabody is one of those dangerously blameless women who believes she has God in her pocket. She is too enthusiastic; she talks too much. Her concern for the welfare of her... Editeur : Abacus Parution : 2012-03-01 ePub 3,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Summer After The Funeral Jane Gardam A rather mysterious old clergyman is dead, and his most adoring child, sixteen-year-old Athene is desolate.A statuesque beauty, greatly admired, she is also lonely, untouchable and living a secret life of fairly dangerous fantasy.Athene's mother, at once highly... Editeur : Abacus Parution : 2012-03-01 ePub 3,99 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande

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