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Salley Vickers
Book List in Order: 18 titles
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Miss Garnet's Angel
- Jan-2001
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After the death of her longtime friend and flatmate, retired British history teacher Julia Garnet does something completely out of character: She takes a six-month rental on a modest apartment in Venice. She befriends a young Italian boy and English ...
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Instances of the Number 3
- Apr-2002
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When a man dies and leaves behind a wife and a mistress, we expect certain responses to follow. But as the narrator of Salley Vickers's second novel explains, "this is not an account of feminine jealousy, or even revenge, and not all human beings (no...
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Mr. Golightly's Holiday
- Jan-2004
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1. holiday: a period in which a break is taken from work or studies for rest, travel, or recreation. [literally: holy day] Many years ago, Mr. Golightly wrote a work of dramatic fiction that grew to be an astonishing international bestseller. But his...
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The Other Side of You
- Feb-2007
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For psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Dr. David McBride, death exerts an unusual draw. Despite his profession, he has never come to terms with the violent accident that took his brother's life, a trauma that has shaped his personality and subsequent cho...
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Where Three Roads Meet
- Jun-2008
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It is 1938 and Sigmund Freud, suffering from the debilitating effects of cancer, has been permitted by the Nazis to leave Vienna. He seeks refuge in England, taking up residence in the house in Hampstead in which he will die only fifteen months later...
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Dancing Backwards
- Aug-2010
- / Literary
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Violet Hetherington has taken the rash step of joining a transatlantic cruise to New York to visit Edwin, an old friend. As she makes the six-day crossing, she relives the traumatic events that led to her losing Edwin's friendship and abandoning her ...
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The Enchanted April
- Apr-2012
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'This delicious confection will work its magic on all' Daily TelegraphThe discreet advertisement in The Times, addressed 'To Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine', offers a small medieval castle for rent, above a bay on the Italian Riviera. Fo...
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The Cleaner of Chartres
- Jul-2013
- / Contemporary Romance
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From the author of Miss Garnet’s Angel, a story of the redemptive power of love and community in the famous French cathedral town There is something very special about Agnès Morel. A quiet presence in the small French town of Chartres, she can...
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The Boy Who Could See Death
- Mar-2016
- / General Fiction
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A new collection of short stories exploring death and afterlife sudden change and second chances the ordinary and the extraordinary from the bestselling author of Miss Garnets Angel and The Cleaner Of Chartres...
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Reader, She Married Me
- Apr-2016
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A short story by Salley Vickers from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.In ‘Reader, She Married Me’ Mr Rochester reveals a long-kept secret.Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader I Married Him, bri...
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The Librarian
- May-2018
- / General Fiction
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A charmingly subversive novel about a library in 1950s England, by the acclaimed author of The Cleaner of Chartres Sylvia Blackwell, a young woman in her twenties, moves to East Mole, a quaint market town in middle England, to start a new job as ...
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Grandmothers
- Nov-2019
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A BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime Grandmothers is the story of three very different women and their relationship with the younger generation: fiercely independent Nan, who leads a secret life as an award-winning poet when she is not teaching her grandso...
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