A Best Book of the Year choice by:

The New York Times Book Review
The Washington Post (Jonathan Yardley)
The San Francisco Chronicle
New York Magazine
The Globe & Mail
Slate


Sir Edward Feathers has progressed from struggling young barrister to wealthy expatriate lawyer to distinguished retired judge living out his last days in comfortable seclusion in Dorset. The engrossing and moving account his life, from birth in colonial Malaya, to Wales, where he is sent as a “Raj orphan,” to Oxford, his career and marriage, encapsulates a large part of the 20th century.

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