Last Friends
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Last Friends
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Narrated by:
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Bill Wallis
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Written by:
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Jane Gardam
Shortlisted for the 2014 Folio Prize.
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, Filth's great rival in work and - though it was never spoken of - in love.
Veneering's were not the usual beginnings of an establishment silk: the son of a Russian acrobat marooned in Northeast England and a devoted local girl, he escapes the war to emerge in the Far East as a man of panache, success, and fame. But always at the stuffy English Bar he is treated with suspicion: where did this blond, louche, brilliant Slav come from?
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.
©2013 Jane Gardam (P)2014 Audible, Inc.What the critics say
"An ambitious and complex portrait of extraordinary times." (Guardian)
Last friends supplies the missing background to the dories of Old Filth and Terry Veneering.
Loved this one too but found that the characters frequently uttered asides which were delivered in a bit of a mumble which I found difficult to understand. All in all though, a lovely book!
This ties it all together.
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