Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the YearEliza Peabody is a dangerous – if blameless – do-gooder. She is too enthusiastic and she talks too much. Her concern for the welfare of the...

I ought to tell you at the beginning that I am not quite normal having had a violent experience at the age of nine.Jessica Vye’s ‘violent experience’ colours her schooldays and her...

Filth, in his heyday, was an international lawyer with a practice in the Far East. Now, only the oldest QCs and Silks can remember that his nickname stood for Failed In London Try Hong Kong.

This delightful novel describes the post-war summer of 1946 – and follows the growing-up of three young women in the months between leaving school and taking up their scholarships at university...

Filth - 'Failed In London Try Hong Kong' - is a successful lawyer when he marries Elisabeth in Hong Kong soon after the War. Reserved, immaculate and courteous, Filth finds it hard to demonstrate...