Long ago Old Filth was a Raj orphan
- one of the many young children sent ' Home' from the East to be fostered & educated in England Jane Gardam's novel tells his story from his birth in what was then Malaya to the extremities of his old age In so doing she not only encapsulates a whole period from the glory days of British Empire through the Second World War to the present & beyond but also illuminates the complexities of the character known variously as Eddie the Judge Fevvers Filth Master of the Inner Temple Teddy & Sir Edward Feathers