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title: "The People on Privilege Hill Paperback – July 29, 2008"
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# The People on Privilege Hill Paperback – July 29, 2008

**Brand:** jane gardam
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- **What is this?** The People on Privilege Hill Paperback – July 29, 2008 by jane gardam
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## Customer Reviews

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    A Bracelet of Gems
  

*by A***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 27, 2012*

What makes gems interesting?  There is the initial impression-sparkle maybe, or color.  But when you really look into one of the magical stones --diamonds, rubies, emeralds -- you see more depth, more color and sometimes more brilliance. You have to keep on looking - a casual glance won't do - to appreciate the result.  Precisely the reason reviewers use "gem" to describe some writing.It is hard to speak too highly of Jane Gardam.  This collection of short stories does a lovely job of demonstrating her breadth.  They surprised me.  I have read Old Filth, The Man in the Wooden Hat, and Queen of the Tambourine, all novels.  This was my first exposure to Gardam in other moods.Who knew she wrote ghost stories? She does (Waiting for a Stranger)and even if the plot device, at the end, is a little predictable, she uses the opportunity to consider our willingness (or lack) to accept people and events that are different. The protagonist is Lizzie, a farm wife who agrees at the last minute to put up a stranger for the evening as a favor to the vicar. The metaphor of the long road approaching the farm, where she can see approaching cars--they dodge in and out of view as they come up the hills -- is telling. Gardam uses metaphors with the delicacy of a water colorist.  She captures the generation gap --a huge difference in perception -- in The Fledgling as a son, who has become a stranger to his mother, leaves for school. In Pangborne, she returns to a familiar Gardam theme:  love as central to survival, even if the one you love is a gorilla. The Latter Days of Mr. Jones circles another Gardam theme -- simply being different is a crime; in this case your heart breaks just a little.  There are 14 stories in all, and they are difficult to categorize. A nun who becomes a stand in for the Virgin Mary at Christmas in Bruges. A hairdresser changes the hair and the life of the mother of a bride, touching on a Gardam theme of how impressions allow us to misread our lives. These are very short short stories, making it all the more astonishing that she manages to fully capture her themes.Gardam is so English and so is understated. She is subtle, and nuance matters. She is very observant. She understands and forgives the errors our hearts lead us to.  She is gently amused by our failures, keen to our ironies. She writes so well that it makes me want to hide my keyboard from myself.This little book will live on my bedside table so I can re-read them from time to time.

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    Review of The People of Privilege Hill
  

*by R***W on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 16, 2013*

This book did not live up to the expectations of Gardam's other books.It was if the publisher wanted to take advantage of the success of the other Filth books.My book club found some good examples of the writing we expected, but all told, we were very disappointed.

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    Exquisite Short Stories.
  

*by W***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 22, 2015*

I found Jane Gardam in my later years, absolutely gobbling up her "Old Filth" trilogy and a few others. But I had never read her short stories, and I am ashamed to say that I didn't even know they existed. I have no idea what led me to "The People on Privilege Hill," but these exquisite stories are not to be missed.As in her novels, Gardam is not garrulous. Each word is precisely chosen and elucidated in stories deceptively brief. Especially in her rendering of older people and the elderly, she does not spare us the sad details, but draws us in so completely and thoroughly that we feel we have known these people all our lives. As an added bonus, at least from me, she has a hilarious "slice of life" from the "Old Filth" series, heretofore not seen. If one has not read the series it doesn't matter, but having read it, I found myself laughing aloud.It feels foolish to recommend Jane Gardem, as she is such a brilliant writer that, rather than recommending her, I should instead be sending her thank you notes for allowing me to read her prose!

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