PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Jane Mary Gardam OBE FRSL is an English writer of children's and adult fiction. She also writes reviews for The Spectator and The Telegraph, and writes for BBC radio. She lives in Kent, Wimbledon, and Yorkshire. Jilly Bond is a British stage and screen actress. She has performed in theatres all over the British Isles and Germany, in plays by William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Neil Simon and numerous other writers. Bond has worked extensively on radio (including the role of Bridget in The Archers) and has recorded hundreds of unabridged audiobooks (some award-winning). She has also appeared in TV series such as Doctors, Judge John Deed, Alistair McGowan's Big Impression, Comedy Nation and Channel 4's cult hit As If.
'Jane Gardam is at her most characteristic and briliant.' -- The Sunday Times 'Engaging and witty.' -- The Observer 'Touching, terribly sad, funny: a smashing novel.' -- The Times 'Fresh and vivid ... comic, touching, eccentric.' -- TLS
