books by Jane Gardam     books:     Jane Gardam      The Queen of the Tambourine Jane Gardam Europa Editions, 2007 "I never knew my tribe. I've always been on the edge, just hanging about." (4.5 stars) Eliza Peabody begins writing to her neighbor Joan, not a close friend, almost immediately after Joan leaves her husband Charles and disappears, leaving behind only a series of addresses around the world where she may be contacted. Eliza takes it upon ...             God on the Rocks (Abacus Books) Jane Gardam Abacus, 1992             The Sidmouth Letters (Abacus Books) Jane Gardam Abacus, 1997 This collection brings together past and present, probing many and varied lives. The title story examines Jane Austen's love life, while others introduce a trio of mean-spirited and middle-aged Kensington widows, a dreaded stranger, and the mercurial changes in young love.             Faith Fox: A Novel Jane Gardam Carroll & Graf, 2005 Dark comedy of familial love Faith Fox is three months old at the end of this dark and witty comedy, which opens with her birth and the shocking, unexpected death of her bursting-with-health mother, Holly. Two-time Whitbread winner Gardam ("The Hollow Land" "The Queen of the Tambourine") turns her ...             Long Way from Verona (Abacus Books) Jane Gardam Little Brown UK, 2001 favourite book of all time This is my favourite book of all time. I never get tired of reading it. It's about this thirteen year old girl in England during the second world war, and stuff that happens to her over a year or two. It's one of those books where the girl is narrating and ...             The People on Privilege Hill Jane Gardam Europa Editions, 2008 "Memory is a miracle. My memory is the best thing I have." Memories, and in many cases, the memories of the aged, infuse this collection of fourteen stories with surprises. Author Jane Gardam, two-time winner of the Whitbread Prize, creates ironies and absurdities for her readers, at the same time that she creates poignant ...             Bilgewater Jane Gardam Hamilton, 1976 Wonderfully written, unique story Yes, this is one of the best & brainiest children's/young adult's books out there. The main characters are misfits stranded amongst "normality" in a boarding school... anyone who has been less than incredibly perfect and popular can relate to the heroine. Gardam has ...             The Flight of the Maidens Jane Gardam Plume, 2002 The Story of the Maidens, Without Sentimentality Jane Gardam's The Flight of the Maidens follows three young women during the summer before their entering university in England in 1946. That basic description may have you assuming that this novel would be a sweet, sentimental exploration of these three girls ...             Old Filth Jane Gardam Europa Editions, 2006 Gardam's "Loss," Our Gain? As is unanimously pointed out in the other reader reviews, OLD FILTH is a mordant, brilliantly written book that will impress even the most discriminating reader. The character profile that author Jane Gardam draws of its venerable protagonist is nuanced and thoroughly ...             A Few Fair Days Jane Gardam Greenwillow, 1988 The Pain and Poetry of Childhood As always, Jane Gardam writes with an unbeatable combination of poetry, humanity and dazzling wit. Here her subject is not the agonized adolescence she has dealt with elsewhere, but rather the small events in a younger child's life. A rural setting brings ...             Crusoe's Daughter (Abacus Books) Jane Gardam Abacus, 1992             Black Faces, White Faces (Abacus Books) Jane Gardam Abacus, 1997             Through the Dolls' House Door Jane Gardam William Morrow & Co, 1987             Missing the Midnight Jane Gardam Abacus, 1998             The Flight of the Maidens Jane Gardam Abacus, 2001 Set in the post-War summer of 1946 in the north of England and peopled with extraordinary characters, the story centres on the coming of age of three young women in the months between leaving school and taking up their scholarships at university. There is Una Vane, whose widowed mother runs a hairdressing salon in her front room (Maison Vane Glory ...          products you might be interested in search for books bilgewater, daughter, midnight, privilege, sidmouth, tambourine      toavi.com    web we recommend Gardam's "Loss," Our Gain? randomly chosen kitchen: Factory-Reconditioned Dyson DC07 Upright Vacuum, Steel/Yellow