The Man in the Wooden Hat

Acknowledgements

My thanks to kind friends Charles and Caroline Worth, who have tried to check the topography of Hong Kong in the 1950s — an almost impossible task, and to Richard Wallington, who has answered a number of questions about the English Bar in Hong Kong. Thanks to William Mayne, for information about East Pakistan.

And gratitude to Richard Ingrams who, almost ten years ago now, asked for a Christmas story in the Oldie and released from somewhere in my sub-conscious Sir Edward Feathers QC, who has dominated three books and a large part of my life ever since. Particular thanks to my editor Penelope Hoare who has been, as ever, indispensable. Any remaining mistakes are my own.

Most of all, thanks to my husband David Gardam, especially for memories of our travels to places where the English Law continues to be heard.

Jane Gardam

Sandwich, Kent

2009