![]() ![]() ![]() 'Salley Vickers sees with a clear eye and writes with a light hand. 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. ![]() The book shares moments from the lightly interconnected lives of three grandmothers, initially strangers to each other, as they spend time with their. 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. Salley Vickers writing lit up my imagination, making me feel insightful and connected and sad and refreshed and better equipped to deal with my life as I flew on the borrowed wings of her words. The chronological limits of contemporary are not defined, giving us scope. ![]() While Margot continues her London life in high finance, Hassie is left alone to work the large, long-neglected garden. An informal book group that meets bi-monthly to discuss contemporary literature. The new novel from Salley Vickers, Sunday Times bestselling author of The LibrarianĪrtist, Hassie Days, and her sister, Margot, buy a run down Jacobean house in Hope Wenlock on the Welsh Marches. ![]()
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