Jane] Gardam's prose is so economical that no moment she describes is either gratuitous or wasted.-The New Yorker From the author of Old Filth, a New York Times notable book of the year. A new collection of stories from a writer at the height of her powers-a 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.