Jane Gardam Summary

Jane Gardam's earliest stories are children's stories, but only in the way that some of Katherine Mansfield's are: they recreate directly the sensations and impressions of childhood. Her first three b... Read more

Jane Gardam began her first novel, A Few Fair Days (1971), on the day her youngest son began school. She was thirty-nine years of age. Since then she has shown herself to be a writer of economy, humo... Read more