'The Man in the Wooden Hat is funny and affecting...It's remarkable.' The New York Times Book Review Sir Edward Feathers and Betty meet in Hong Kong after the Second World War. Betty has 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 Feathers one of the most memorable char-acters in modern literature. Old Filth was Edward's story. In The Man in the Wooden Hat, the story of his marriage is told from the point of view of Betty, a character as vivid and enchanting as Filth himself. In this second book of remarkable trilogy, an intriguing backstory becomes a full-blooded novel that rivals its beloved predecessor and gives as fine a portrait of a decades-long marriage as any written in English. 'Taken together Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat] are a British equivalent of Evan S.