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
Vickers writes of relationships with undaunted clarity
- Adam Phillips,
No one can dig down into the shrouded recesses of the human heart quite as forensically as Vickers
Sunday Times
An escapist, involving novel about relationships and two siblings coming to terms with their childhood and each other
Saga
With its sensitively drawn characters, this is a quiet and intelligent hymn to the restorative power of nature. Delightful
Mail on Sunday
The bestselling author of Miss Garnet's Angel and The Librarian, Vickers has been a Jungian therapist and her novels have always featured personal growth and transformation. This is no exception, as Hassie weathers bereavement, a
break-up and midlife despair, but finds a sense of new beginnings and a feeling for the power of place. It also has some sharp social observation about the reality of moving out to the sticks in post-Brexit Britain
Sunday Times
Salley Vickers is skilled at transforming the everyday into something haunting. This tale of a woman's search for inner peace is no exception
Daily Express
Profoundly moving, healing and wise, this is the perfect antidote to our urban anxiety
- Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat,