"Sir Edward Feathers and Betty met in Hong Kong after the Second World War. Betty had spent the war in a Japanese internment camp; Feathers, a "Raj orphan," is a successful barrister known by the moniker Filth - Failed in London Try Hong Kong - who is in want of an English wife but lacking in romantic aptitude." "The New York Times called Old Filth one of the most memorable characters in modern literature. Old Filth was Eddie's story. Here in The Man in the Wooden Hat, the story of his marriage told from the point of view of Betty, a character as vivid and enchanting as Filth himself."--BOOK JACKET.