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.

General Information

ISBN : 9780349122540
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Imprint : Sphere
Weight (g) : 0.14515
Publication date : 01 July 2009
Produced in : United Kingdom
Product Type : books

Other Specifications

Author : Jane Gardam
Bind : Paperback
Edition : 1
Language : English
Pages : 192
BIC subject : Modern fiction

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Author description

Jane Gardam is a Whitbread Award Winner and her novel GOD ON THE ROCKS was runner-up for the Booker Prize. She is winner of the David Higham Award and the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize.THE PANGS OF LOVE won the Katherine Mansfield Award.