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THE GARDENER - SALLEY VICKERS KARTONIERT (TB)

The new novel from Salley Vickers  Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian and
Grandmothers 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' 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'Profoundly moving  healing and wise  this is the perfect antidote to our urban
anxiety' Joanne Harris  author of Chocolat

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