Miss Garnets Angel

Author : Salley Vickers
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007364334
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miss Garnet’s Angel written by Salley Vickers and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salley Vicker’s sensational debut novel, ‘Miss Garnet’s Angel’, is a voyage of discovery; a novel about Venice but also the rich story of the explosive possibilities of change in all of us at any time.

Author : Salley Vickers
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466812001
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Other Side of You written by Salley Vickers and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Cruikshank, comes into his care, he finds the deepest reaches of his suppressed history being reactivated. Elizabeth is mysteriously reticent about her own past and it is not until David recalls a painting by the Italian artist Caravaggio that she finally yields her story. As she recounts the chance encounter which took her to Rome, and her tragic tale of passion and betrayal, David begins to find a strange and disturbing reflection of his own loss in the haunted "other side" of this elusive woman. Through one long night's dialogue they journey together into a past which brings painful new insight and uncertain resolution to each of them. The Other Side of You is a powerful meditation on art, and on love in all its manifestations. In distinctive, graceful prose, Salley Vickers explores the ways both love and art can penetrate the complexities of the human heart, to invade and change our being, and the possibilities of regeneration through another's vision and understanding.

Author : Salley Vickers
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101599634
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cleaner of Chartres written by Salley Vickers and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 found cleaning the famed medieval cathedral or doing odd jobs for the townspeople. No one knows where she came from or why. Not diffident Abbé Paul, nor lonely Professor Jones, nor even Alain Fleury, whose attention she catches with her tawny eyes. She has transformed all their lives in her own subtle way, yet no one suspects the dark secret Agnès is hiding. Then an accidental encounter dredges up the specter of her past, and the nasty meddling of town gossips forces Agnès to confront her tragic history and the violent act that haunts it.

Author : Salley Vickers
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374214891
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr. Golightly's Holiday written by Salley Vickers and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of a one-time international bestseller, Mr. Golightly finds himself badly out of touch with the modern world, and decides to take a holiday in order to bring his work up to date, but his plans take a bizarre turn.

Author : Salley Vickers
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780374706128
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Instances of the Number 3 written by Salley Vickers and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 expected." Indeed, in this ironic and witty novel nothing is quite as we expect to find it. Telling the story of Bridget Hansome and Frances Slater, Vickers brings to life a loving marriage and a love affair that exist side by side for years - and continue to reverberate after secretive, generous, sexually prodigal Peter Hansome dies suddenly in a car accident, on his way home from an assignation with yet another lover, about whom neither woman knows. While Frances, a London art dealer and sometime artists' model, gradually makes friends with the older, Shakespeare-loving Bridget, these two unconventional women start to learn the whole truth (or almost the whole truth) about the man whose death brought them together and whose ghost watches over them still. Wise, wry, and intellectually playful, Instances of the Number 3 explores the mysterious power of triangles in love, art, and theology. It confirms Salley Vickers as one of the most intelligent new voices in British fiction.

Author : Jon Methven
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451642172
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Is Your Captain Speaking written by Jon Methven and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A PILOT, A JOURNALIST, AND A SEMEN TRAFFICKER WALK ONTO A PLANE . . . When flight AW2921 crashes into the Hudson River and all 162 passengers survive, it’s a Monday morning miracle. What the rapturous public doesn’t know: the whole thing was staged as a last-ditch attempt at resurrecting the Air Wanderlust stock price. Captain Hank Swagger piloted the miracle plane into the river. Disgraced TV news anchor Lucy Springer was “luckily” the only reporter on board, and the first to capture the story. Con man Normal Fulk recently faked his own death to escape the consequences of his barely legal career as a celebrity semen trafficker. Toting his last big score—the “John Lennon”—Normal has to leave it behind on the sinking plane or risk being identified and arrested. In the aftermath of the crash and the chaotic week that follows, Lucy, Normal, and Captain Swagger are all about to discover what it means to be at the center of a miracle that is anything but.

Author : Salley Vickers
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429979887
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing Backwards written by Salley Vickers and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Salley Vickers
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101630795
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miss Garnet's Angel written by Salley Vickers and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Rosamunde Pilcher
Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 146682493X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Carousel written by Rosamunde Pilcher and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2013-03-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Sebastian Faulks
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804153752
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Girl at the Lion d'Or written by Sebastian Faulks and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beautifully written and--extraordinarily moving."--The Sunday Times (London) From the author of the international bestseller Birdsong, comes a haunting historical novel of passion, loss, and courage set in France between the two world wars. This Vintage Original edition marks its first appearance in the United States. On a rainy night in the 1930s, Anne Louvet appears at the run-down Hotel du Lion d'Or in the village of Janvilliers. She is seeking a job and a new life, one far removed from the awful injustices of her past. As Anne embarks on a torrential love affair with a married veteran of the Great War, The Girl at the Lion d'Or fashions an unbreakable spell of narrative and atmosphere that evokes French masters from Flaubert to Renoir. "This moving and profound novel is perfectly constructed, and admirable in its configurations of place and period."--The Times (London) "I would urge those who appreciated--The French Lieutenant's Woman to try this one--. They may well think it superior."--Sunday Telegraph (London)