Publication Date: 03/09/2020 ISBN: 9780241371435 Category:

Grandmothers

Salley Vickers

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date: 03/09/2020 ISBN: 9780241371435 Category:
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The new novel from Salley Vickers, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian

‘Heart-warming… Grandmothers is a beautifully written and moving celebration of this love, too often unsung, that reaches out across the generations’ The Times

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 grandson Billy how to lie; glamorous Blanche, deprived of the company of her beloved granddaughter Kitty by her hostile daughter-in-law, who finds solace in rebelliously taking to drink and shop lifting; and shy, bookish Minna who in the safety of shepherd’s hut shares with her surrogate granddaughter Rose her passion for reading. The outlook of all three women subtly alters when through their encounters with each other they discover that the past is always with us and that we go on learning and changing until the very end.

Grandmothers is a beautifully observed, sometimes subversive, often tender and elegiac novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian.

‘A fond portrait of what it is to love a child, both yours and not… a tonic for the overlooked modern grandmother’ Sunday Times

‘Vickers sees with a clear eye and writes with a light hand. She’s a presence worth cherishing in the ranks of modern novelists’ Philip Pullman

Publisher Review

A nostalgic treat...involving and hopeful * Mail on Sunday on 'The Librarian' * The Librarian will wring the heart of anyone who fell in love with books as a child. It is a hymn to the power of literature...delightful * The Times on 'The Librarian' * No one can dig down into the shrouded recesses of the human heart quite as forensically as Vickers * Sunday Times * Vickers writes of relationships with undaunted clarity -- Adam Phillips Vickers sees with a clear eye and writes with a light hand. She's a presence worth cherishing in the ranks of modern novelists -- Philip Pullman A fond portrait of what it is to love a child, both yours and not... a tonic for the overlooked modern grandmother * Sunday Times *

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