Salley Vickers

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We welcome onto the podcast this week author Salley Vickers. Salley's first novel Miss Garnet's Angel was published in the year 2000. Since then, she has gone on to pen 11 novels in total as well as collections of short stories. Previously, she worked as a teacher and a psycho-analyst. Her storytelling has won her many fans and she's a Sunday Times bestseller. Her latest book The Gardener is a beautiful reflection on family, place, immigration and nature and is now available in paperback.

Purchase The Gardener by Salley Vickers here

(1:43) Salley Vickers' Childhood
(7:34) Growing Up in a Communist Community
(19:26) Salley Vickers' First Novel and the Writing Process
(31:55) Confronting the Blank Page
(35:30) Pagan landscapes and The Gardener
(53:00) Dyslexia and Literature

The podcast is produced and presented by Jack Wrighton and the team at Mostly Books. It is edited by Story Ninety-Four. Find us on Twitter @mostlyreading & Instagram @mostlybooks_shop.

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Jack Wrighton is a bookseller and social media manager at Mostly Books. His hobbies include photography and buying books at a quicker rate than he can read them.
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The Gardener is published in the UK by Penguin.

Books mentioned in this episode include:
Tom's Midnight Garden by Phillipa Pearce - ISBN 9780192734501
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carol - ISBN 9781782692843
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter - ISBN 9780241513729
Seven Types of Ambiguity by William Empson - ISBN 9780140214789

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