Jane Gardam

Jane Mary Gardam OBE (born 11 July 1928, Coatham, North Yorkshire) is a British author of children's and adult fiction. She also reviews for the Spectator and the Telegraph, and writes for BBC radio, where her current project is six programmes on the suburbs. She lives in Kent, Wimbledon, and Yorkshire. She has won numerous literary awards, including the Whitbread Award, twice. She was married to David Gardam QC and had three children, Tim, Kitty and Tom. Tim Gardam is the Principal of St Anne's College, Oxford. Her daughter was the botanical artist Catharine Nicholson (1958-2011), whose pen and ink drawings won her three Royal Horticultural Society gold medals. Tom Gardam now lives in Boston Massachusetts. She was appointed Officer of...