A review by archytas
Last Friends by Jane Gardam

4.0

A final return to Jane Gardam's world of wistful survivors. Moving away in focus from the Raj Orphans, she turns the lens on war-time working-class Britain, and the lives of those who survived it. Along the way, she explores the changing and unchanging nature of the English countryside, and the sense of the aged slowly slipping out of sync with the world around them.

And true to form, this series of books about a marriage more practical than romantic, ends with a love story about nostalgia, and the importance of being left standing.