EAN: 9780241482803

THE GARDENER - SALLEY VICKERS KARTONIERT (TB)

The new novel from Salley Vickers  Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian and
Grandmothers - a charming  heartwarming and beautifully designed Christmas gift! Artist  Hassie
Days  and her sister  Margot  buy a run down Jacobean house in Hope Wenlock on the Welsh
Marches. While Margot continues her London life in high finance  Hassie is left alone to work
the large  long-neglected garden. She is befriended by eccentric  sharp-tongued  Miss Foot  who
recommends  Murat  an Albanian migrant  made to feel out of place among the locals  to help
Hassie in the garden. As she works the garden in Murat's peaceful company  Hassie ruminates on
her past life: the sibling rivalry that tainted her childhood and the love affair that left her
with painful  unanswered questions. But as she begins to explore the history of the house and
the mysterious nearby wood  old hurts begin to fade as she experiences the healing power of
nature and discovers other worlds. In her haunting new novel  Salley Vickers  the bestselling
author of The Librarian and The Cleaner of Chartres  writes with the profound psychological
insight and sense of the numinous power of place that is the hallmark of all her novels.
'Salley Vickers sees with a clear eye and writes with a light hand. She's a presence worth
cherishing' Philip Pullman'The Gardener is a novel of regrowth & regeneration  of sisters
overcoming a toxic parental legacy & of the healing power of seed packets. The perfect
fictional promise to draw us through a harsh winter' Patrick Gale'Steeped in a sense of the
redemptive power of place  Sally Vickers's 11th novel is a paean to green-fingered regeneration
that is both rigorous and charming' Observer

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