Book description
First in the Old Filth trilogy. A New York Times Notable Book. “Old Filth belongs in the Dickensian pantheon of memorable characters” (The New York Times Book Review).
Sir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, where he earned the…
Why read it?
1 author picked Old Filth as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
On the surface, a beautifully written story of a distinguished retired lawyer coping with the death of his wife. But what gripped and moved me were its deeper, ever more relevant themes.
It’s a meditation on the loneliness we surround ourselves with, the compromises we make to keep what relationships we have, the healing nature of the passage of time. I learnt much about the machinery of Empire in its waning days. Yet, somehow, it is not a sad book. A minor miracle of a novel.
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