About this deal
FILTH is an acronym for "Failed in London, Try Hong Kong", which describes a particular sector of the British professional and civil service classes, with the not so subtle implication that those who chose to work in former outposts of the empire may not have done so as a first choice.
Max Johnson started working at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong in 2012 but was "downsized" in 2016, and started his own investment business. Her novel Bilgewater (1977), originally written for children, has now been re-classified as adult fiction. The book actually covers quite a bit of his past when he was growing up and in his college years (and WWII was sandwiched in there). Edward Feathers, nicknamed Filth (failed in London, try Hong Kong) is a legend in his professional life but he can't seem to find satisfaction or intimacy in his private life.Images of her tripping on the steps at the Great Hall of the People and reports of Deng Xiaoping’s irritation at her proposal of keeping a British presence in Hong Kong, have been well documented and criticised.
It looks as if this 'sank in Hong Kong, try Singapore' offering is equally likely to sink in Singapore too. Instead, they are forming a new class of highly qualified young Britons, unable to find work at home, who are taking the manual labour jobs that have traditionally been the domain of native Chinese. Now an eighty-year-old widower living in comfortable seclusion in Dorset, Feathers is finally free from the regimen of work and the sentimental scaffolding that has sustained him throughout his life. Expats who might have never worked in the City, Europe's financial hub, could walk into good jobs and cut deals in the soft-carpeted confines of the Hong Kong Club or over a pint at the Captain's Bar in the Mandarin Oriental.When you do that,” Old Filth would say—when they were young and he was still aware of her all the time—“your eyes are almond-shaped.