EAN: 9780241371435

GRANDMOTHERS - SALLEY VICKERS KARTONIERT (TB)

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 TimesGrandmothers 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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