FILTH, in his heyday, was an international lawyer with a practice in the Far East Now, only the oldest QCs and Silks can remember that his nickname stood for 'Failed In London Try Hong Kong' Old Filth was a 'Raj orphan' His earliest memories are of his amah, a teenage Malay girl - not of his mother who is dead, nor his father who can't cope But very soon he is torn away from the only person who loves him, and sent to be educated at 'Home', where he is boarded out with strangers What is the terrible secret that the children shared? What exactly happened at the farmhouse in the Lake District from which Filth is rescued by 'Sir' whose 'outfit' is one of the oddest schools in England?