Quote of the day
We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
Jane Gardam

Born: July 11, 1928
Died: April 28, 2025 (aged 96)
Bio: Jane Mary Gardam was an English writer of children's and adult fiction. She also wrote reviews for The Spectator and The Telegraph, and writes for BBC radio. She lived in Kent, Wimbledon, and Yorkshire.
Known for:
- Old filth (2004)
- The Man in the Wooden Hat (2009)
- Last Friends (2013)
- The Hollow Land (1981)
- Crusoe's Daughter (1985)







