Salley Vickers: 11 books

Book cover of Instances of the Number 3
by Salley Vickers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007

When a man dies and leaves behind a wife and a mistress, we expect certain responses to follow. But as the narrator of Salley Vickers's second novel explains, "this is not an account of feminine jealousy, or even revenge, and not all human beings (not even women) conform to the attitudes generally...
Book cover of Where Three Roads Meet

Where Three Roads Meet

The Myth of Oedipus

by Salley Vickers
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008

In the latest retelling of the world’s greatest stories in the Myth series from Canongate, the highly regarded novelist Salley Vickers brings to life the Western world’s most widely known myth, Oedipus, through a shrewdly told exploration of the seminal story in conversation between Freud and Tiresias.It...
Book cover of Vacation
by Salley Vickers
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012

From the author of Miss Garnet's Angel and the forthcoming The Cleaner of Chartres comes a relatable short story about family holidays. When Beth decides to treat her husband Hamish to a short holiday in the Scottish Highlands, his paternal home, she does not bet on the arrival of Una, her...
Book cover of Dancing Backwards
by Salley Vickers
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010

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...
Book cover of Reader, She Married Me: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
by Salley Vickers
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016

A short story by Salley Vickers from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre. In ‘Reader, She Married Me’ Mr Rochester reveals a long-kept secret. Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative...
Book cover of The Other Side of You
by Salley Vickers
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008

For psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Dr. David McBride, death exerts an unusual draw. Despite his profession, he has never come to terms with the violent accident that took his brother's life, a trauma that has shaped his personality and subsequent choice of career. But when a failed suicide, Elizabeth...
Book cover of Mr Golightly's Holiday
by Salley Vickers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005

holiday: a period in which a break is taken from work or studies for rest, travel, or recreation. [literally: holy day] Many years ago, Mr. Golightly wrote a work of dramatic fiction that grew to be an astonishing international bestseller. But his reputation is on the decline and he finds himself...
Book cover of L'ho sposato, lettore mio
by Tessa Hadley, Sarah Hall, Helen Dunmore
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 21, 2016

Per quale ragione «L’ho sposato, lettore mio» è una delle frasi più celebri e citate della letteratura inglese? La risposta, tutt’altro che ovvia, risiede nel capolavoro da cui è tratta: Jane Eyre (1847), la storia di un’orfana che, grazie alla sola intelligenza e caparbietà, riesce a...
Book cover of The Cleaner of Chartres
by Salley Vickers
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013

“If you enjoy the work of Marilynne Robinson, Penelope Fitzgerald, James Salter…you should be reading Vickers.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World There is something very special about Agnès Morel. A quiet presence in the small French town of Chartres, she can usually be...
Book cover of Miss Garnet's Angel
by Salley Vickers
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013

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....
Book cover of Lei mi ha sposato, lettore mio

Lei mi ha sposato, lettore mio

L'ho sposato, lettore mio

by Salley Vickers
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 11, 2016

Per festeggiare i 200 anni della nascita di Charlotte Brontë, Tracy Chevalier ha chiesto alle migliori autrici in lingua inglese di scrivere una storia ispirata alla celebre battuta di Jane Eyre: «L’ho sposato, lettore mio». Questo racconto fa parte della raccolta dedicata a Charlotte Brontë: L’ho sposato, lettore mio a cura di TRACY CHEVALIER
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