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The brilliant new work from the bestselling author of ‘Miss Garnet’s Angel’ and ‘The Other Side of You’.

Violet Hetherington has taken the rash step of joining a transatlantic cruise ship 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 career as a poet, for the safety of marriage and domesticity.

Despite her natural reserve, she meets a rich variety of passengers travelling with her, who affect her understanding of her own past. Most significantly, she meets Dino, the dance host, whose motives in befriending Vi are shady, but who teaches her to ballroom dance - and inadvertently helps her to recover from her past.

Moving between the late sixties and the present day, ‘Dancing Backwards’ is written with the lightness of touch and psychological insight which characterise Salley Vickers' acclaimed work. This bittersweet novel is subtle, poignant and wonderfully entertaining.

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‘“Dancing Backwards” is a delightful read – comic, sad, tender and utterly engrossing.’ Lisa O’Kelly, Observer

‘Salley Vickers has a gift for making the most unlikely settings for fiction absolutely compelling...peerless story telling.’ Independent

‘Packs a surprising emotional and intellectual punch....a wonderfully satisfying, richly rewarding journey for the reader.’ The Times

‘This novel’s central triumph is its portrait of a heroine steadily – and with immense hope – working through the dramas of her quietly difficult life...that is perhaps Vickers’s most appealing characteristic: her essential optimism.’ Sunday Telegraph

‘An elegant waltz through a personal history littered with betrayal and regret, crisply and carefully told.’ Guardian

'Graceful and absorbing ... nobody can dig down into the shrouded recesses of the human heart quite as forensically as [Vickers] does.' Elizabeth Buchan, Sunday Times

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"Salley Vickers' marvellous new novel, 'Dancing Backwards'...is a book about giving and taking and about the kindnesses we are capable of doing one another; it's also shot through with her typical brand of subtle humour and thinking characters who aren't afraid to be fully-formed."

John Burnside, Scotland on Sunday

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  • PublisherFourth Estate
  • Publication date2010
  • ISBN 10 000714315X
  • ISBN 13 9780007143153
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages272
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