A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

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"This is the rare novel that drives its readers forward while persistently waylaying and detaining by the sheer beauty and inventiveness of its style. One must savor every phrase." --The Guardian

"Gardam is an exquisite storyteller. Old Filth is sad, funny, beautiful, and haunting."--The Seattle Times

"Splendid . . . Jane Gardam's style is perfect." --The New York Times Book Review

"I don't know why Gardam isn't universally celebrated and beloved. Her prose is dazzling, and she writes with a kind of subdued but wicked humor that takes a moment to clamp down on you."--Lauren Groff, author of The Vaster Wilds

"A magnificent creation . . . an almost unbearably poignant document of isolation and retreat."--The Sunday Times

"Jane Gardam's beautiful, vivid, defiantly funny novel is a must."--The Times

"I think Jane Gardam is a genius and should be far more widely read. She has actually made me gasp, slap a book shut and say, 'She can't do that!, ' open it up and realize that she can, she has, and it works."--Denise Mina, author of The Long Drop

"Jane Gardam is one of our finest novelists. . . Readers will relish Old Filth for its compassionate wisdom, its comprehension of how we lived then and live now and for its absolute mastery of authorial tone. It is a Rembrandt portrait of a novel; don't miss it!"--The New Statesman

"From the dusty opening to its quietly eloquent resolution this novel is a sustained tour de force of the novelist's craft, wit and intelligence. Utterly compelling." --The Observer

"A magnificent, deeply moving and compassionate portrait of an era and a sentimental education." --The Daily Mail

"Gardam's superb new novel is surely her masterpiece . . . one of the most moving fictions I have read in years."--Time Out

"[Jane Gardam is] the best contemporary British writer you probably haven't heard of."--Maureen Corrigan, NPR