Old Filth (concluded)

Filth, at the end, wanders about revisiting his cousins from his earliest childhood days in England, Babs and Claire. Through various memories and discussions, it is revealed that he played a part in the death of their foster mother--a mean woman--Ma Didds. (The children cut off a chicken's head. Ma Didds, rushing up the stairs to beat one of them, is stopped by Filth. She falls and dies, though she also had cancer and would have died anyway. Albert Ross--his Chinese friend--dies in 9/11 attack. Filth decides to return to Singapore. When he gets off the plane, he feels home. Clearly set up for a Part Two as the reader learns very little about Filth's time in Hong Kong in part one. I will read the other books, but not immediately.
Beautiful writing and characterization. Plot wanders quite a bit . . . not the point, at least not yet.