The People on Privilege Hill and Other Stories (Paperback)

from RandyMetcalfe

For fans of Jane Gardam's "Old Filth" novels, the title story in this collection is everything you might hope it could be. Indeed, this short story might just as easily have been a chapter in one of the novels. Here you will find Sir Edward Feathers ('Old Filth' himself), his nemesis Veneering, t...

from tippycanoegal

Worth the price of the book just to revisit Filth and Veneering in the first story. I can't get enough of those characters's from Gardam's novels "Old Filth" and "The Man in the Wooden Hat." I enjoyed the other short stories as well, but was not quite as taken with the rest as I was with the first.

from Girl_Detective

Immediately on finishing Gardam's Old Filth, I learned that her story collection The People on Privilege Hill contained a story with Old Filth himself, Edward Feathers. I was thrilled to "meet" him again, and by turns charmed, saddened and teased by the other stories in this collection. Gardam is...