The Man In The Wooden HatAuthor: Gardam, Jane Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Published on 6 February 2014 by Little, Brown Book Group (Abacus) in the United Kingdom. Paperback 288 pages 197 x 125 x 19 230g 'It's a cliche to compare novelists to Jane Austen, but in the case of Jane Gardam it happens to be true. Her diamond like prose, her understanding of the human heart, her formal inventiveness and her sense of what it is to be alive young, old, lonely, in love

in her late twenties

There are woods

with a not-quite-so-ordinary tail…

Using authentic kids' questions

now ruined by the terrible conflict

a distressed

braver than the boys

It dives into the history of continents across the globe in impressive detail and can be read for short or longer bursts

this graphic novel of large and small facts

But over time

Along with historic moments in poster evolution

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