![]() ![]() ![]() In her haunting new novel, Salley Vickers, the bestselling author of The Librarian and The Cleaner of Chartres, writes with the profound psychological insight and sense of the numinous power of place that is the hallmark of all her novels. She is befriended by eccentric, sharp-tongued Miss Foot, who recommends Murat, an Albanian migrant, made to feel out of place among the locals, to help Hassie in the garden.Īs she works the garden in Murat’s peaceful company, Hassie ruminates on her past life: the sibling rivalry that tainted her childhood and the love affair that left her with painful, unanswered questions.īut as she begins to explore the history of the house and the mysterious nearby wood, old hurts begin to fade as she experiences the healing power of nature and discovers other worlds. Vickers worked, variously, as a cleaner, a dancer, an artist’s model, and a psychoanalyst before writing her first novel Miss Garnet’s Angel which became a word-of-mouth bestseller around the world. ![]() Yeats’ poem ‘Down by the Salley Gardens’. Salley Vickers switches a gear in this gentle, beautifully observed slice of rural life in the Fifties. While Margot continues her London life in high finance, Hassie is left alone to work the large, long-neglected garden. Born in Liverpool, novelist Salley Vickers was named, by her father, after W.B. Artist Hassie Days and her sister, Margot, buy a run-down Jacobean house in Hope Wenlock on the Welsh Marches. ![]()
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