Instances of the Number 3

Vickers, Salley

ISBN 10: 1841156582 / ISBN 13: 9781841156583

Published by Fourth Estate (An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers), London, 2001

About this Item

Signed by author on title page. Hardcover with lightly bumped foot of spine. Slightly scuffed dust jacket with two small tears on upper and lower edges and some superficial scores. Minor creasing to lower leading corners of jacket. Second inner paper hinge is slightly split. Faint traces of colour pen on top of half-title page; otherwise text remains clear throughout. T.

Seller Inventory # 296028

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Instances of the Number 3
• Publisher: Fourth Estate (An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers), London
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841156582
• ISBN 13: 9781841156583
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Book Type: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

The much anticipated new novel from the bestselling author of ‘Miss Garnet’s Angel’. Salley Vickers has been hailed as the new Penelope Fitzgerald by critics and readers alike.

Bridget Hansome and Frances Slater have only one thing in common. And that's Peter Hansome, who has died suddenly. Without their husband or lover, the women find that before they can rebuild their lives they must look to themselves and unravel mysteries that they had never before even suspected. So begins an unlikely alliance between wife and mistress and a voyage of discovery that is as comic as it is profound.

INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3 is a funny, beguiling exploration of love, bereavement, Shakespeare, illusion and the impossibility of escaping your past.

‘Compulsive, like the Sultan listening to Scheherazade.’ John Bayley

About the Author

Salley Vickers divides her time between London, the West Country and Venice. Previously a university
lecturer in English, when not writing she practices as a psychologist and still lectures widely on the connections between literature, psychology and religion.