Grandmothers - Hardcover

Vickers, Salley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241371414 ISBN 13: 9780241371411

Publisher: Viking, 2019

Synopsis

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. It should be read by all grannies - so that's one Christmas present sorted' 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

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Review:

Heart-warming...Grandmothers is a beautifully written and moving celebration of this love, too often unsung, that reaches out across the generations. It should be read by all grannies - so that's one Christmas present sorted (The Times)

A gentle, subtly autumnal tale...allows characters ample opportunity to reflect wisely on subjects including art, family and mortality (Daily Mail)

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

No one can dig down into the shrouded recesses of the human heart quite as forensically as Vickers (Sunday Times)

An incisive exploration of the sweetly painful love that exists between generations (Mail on Sunday)

Vickers writes of relationships with undaunted clarity (Adam Phillips)

About the Author:

Salley Vickers is the author of many novels, including Miss Garnet's Angel, The Cleaner of Chartres and Cousins. She has worked as a teacher of children with special needs, a university teacher of literature and a psychoanalyst. She now writes full time and divides her time between London and Wiltshire.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0241371414
• ISBN 13: 9780241371411
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304