Miss Garnet's Angel

Miss Garnet's Angel PDF Author: Salley Vickers
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101630795
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Book Description
After the death of her longtime friend and flatmate, retired British history teacher Julia Garnet does something completely out of character: She takes a six-month rental on a modest apartment in Venice. She befriends a young Italian boy and English twins who are restoring a fourteenth-century chapel. And she falls in love for the first time in her life with an art dealer named Carlo. Juxtaposing Julia's journey of self-discovery with the apocryphal tale of Tobias and the Archangel Raphael, Miss Garnet's Angel tells a lyrical, incandescent story of love, loss, miracles, and redemption and of one woman's transformation and epiphany.

Miss Garnet's Angel

Miss Garnet's Angel PDF Author: Salley Vickers
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101630795
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Book Description
After the death of her longtime friend and flatmate, retired British history teacher Julia Garnet does something completely out of character: She takes a six-month rental on a modest apartment in Venice. She befriends a young Italian boy and English twins who are restoring a fourteenth-century chapel. And she falls in love for the first time in her life with an art dealer named Carlo. Juxtaposing Julia's journey of self-discovery with the apocryphal tale of Tobias and the Archangel Raphael, Miss Garnet's Angel tells a lyrical, incandescent story of love, loss, miracles, and redemption and of one woman's transformation and epiphany.

The Other Side of You

The Other Side of You PDF Author: Salley Vickers
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007358156
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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Book Description
The brilliant new novel from the bestselling author of ‘Mr Golightly's Holiday’ and ‘Miss Garnet’s Angel’.

Instances of the Number 3

Instances of the Number 3 PDF Author: Salley Vickers
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007358083
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33

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Book Description
The fantastic new edition of the bestselling second novel from the author of ‘Miss Garnet’s Angel’.

The Radleys

The Radleys PDF Author: Matt Haig
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451610335
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Book Description
Includes a "Reading group guide" ([12] p.).

Dancing Backwards

Dancing Backwards PDF Author: Salley Vickers
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429979887
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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Book Description
Violet Hetherington has taken the rash step of joining a transatlantic cruise to New York to visit Edwin, an old friend. As she makes the six-day crossing, she relives the traumatic events that led to her losing Edwin's friendship and abandoning her career as a poet for the safety of marriage and domesticity. Despite her natural reserve, she meets a rich variety of passengers traveling with her, who affect her understanding of her own past. Most significant, she meets Dino, the dancing host, whose motives in befriending Vi are shady but who teaches her to ballroom dance and inadvertently helps her to recover from her past. Moving between the late sixties and the present day, Dancing Backwards is written with the lightness of touch and psychological insight that characterize Salley Vickers's acclaimed work. This bittersweet novel is subtle, poignant, and wonderfully entertaining.

The Gardener

The Gardener PDF Author: Salley Vickers
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241991161
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Book Description
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

Oh! You Pretty Things

Oh! You Pretty Things PDF Author: Shanna Mahin
Publisher: Dutton
ISBN: 110198399X
Category : Administrative assistants
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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Book Description
A third-generation Hollywood resident becomes a reluctant personal assistant and chef to a famous recluse before catching the attentions of a rising star, with unexpected consequences.--

The Carousel

The Carousel PDF Author: Rosamunde Pilcher
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN: 146682493X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Book Description
Celebrate life's journeys with the beloved author whose stories of life and love have touched the world. Return to the sun-drenched settings of The Shell Seekers and the rich emotion of Coming Home, as Rosamunde Pilcher takes you on an unforgettable journey of the heart. It is the passage of a young woman from a relationship that has become too tame and predictable to the excitement of a new life brimming with possibilities and the thrilling promise of love. And along the way, all the hopes, secrets, and desires that enrich us unite a joyous carousel of life that only Rosamunde Pilcher can create.

The Librarian

The Librarian PDF Author: Salley Vickers
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241330254
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Book Description
A charmingly subversive novel about a library in 1950s England, by the acclaimed author of The Cleaner of Chartres Sylvia Blackwell, a young woman in her twenties, moves to East Mole, a quaint market town in middle England, to start a new job as a children's librarian. But the apparently pleasant town is not all it seems. Sylvia falls in love with an older man - but it's her connectionto his precocious young daughter and her neighbours' son which will change her life and put them, the library and her job under threat. How does the library alter the young children's lives and how do the children fare as a result of the books Sylvia introduces them to?

Grandmothers

Grandmothers PDF Author: Salley Vickers
Publisher: Penguin Books Limited
ISBN: 9780241371435
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Book Description
A wonderful novel about four very different grandmothers: Blanche, who can't seem to stop stealing things from the local pharmacy; Minna, who just wants a quiet life in her shepherd's hut, though the local children have other ideas; Cherry, who's adjusting to life in a care home; and Nan, whose favourite occupation is researching funerals - whose lives and grandchildren become unexpectedly entangled.