The People on Privilege Hill

About this book

Engrossing stories of hilarity and heartbreak from the Whitbread Awardwinning author of the Old Filth trilogy (The Seattle Times). A collection of stories from a writer at the height of her powersa celebrated stylist admired for her caustic humor freewheeling imagination love of humanity and wicked powers of observation. This is a delightful grouping of stories witty and wise that includes the return of Sir Edward Feathers Old Filth himself. Gardams stories like delicate tapestries are alight with colors. The Times (London) When Gardam hits her mark like other exemplary short-story writers such as William Trevor Sylvia Townsend Warner and Elizabeth Taylor she can be dazzling.The Guardian Gardams brisk narration and fearless temperament make for serious fun.Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Wry economical and perpetually surprising these 14 stories from English novelist Gardam follow the last of the intrepid stiff upper lip WWII generation of British ladies and gentlemen. . . . Gardam vividly evokes an age of iron wills.Publishers Weekly Gardam displays the consummate skill of the short-story-teller which is that of the caricaturist the ability to capture a personality in a few brief strokes. . . . Privilege Hill is a collection of gentle stories that you could read to your grandmother with the kind of sharp wit that would no doubt give her a secret smile. But theyre deeper than they look . . . so dont read them all at once.The Bookbag