Salley Vickers

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Liverpool, The United Kingdom

gender

female

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http://www.salleyvickers.com/

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Literature & Fiction

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Salley Vickers was born in Liverpool, the home of her mother, and grew up as the child of parents in the British Communist Party. She won a state scholarship to St Paul’s Girl’s School and went on to read English at Newnham College Cambridge.

She has worked, variously, as a cleaner, a dancer, an artist’s model, a teacher of children with special needs, a university teacher of literature, and a psychoanalyst. Her first novel, ‘Miss Garnet’s Angel’, became an international word-of-mouth bestseller. She now writes full time and lectures widely on many subjects, particularly the connections between, art, literature, psychology and religion.

Her principal interests are opera, bird watching, dancing, and poetry. One of her father's favourite poets...more

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Books by Salley Vickers

Average rating: 3.53 · 1,846 ratings · 336 reviews · 15 distinct works

	Miss Garnet's Angel 3.63 avg rating — 649 ratings — published 2000 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Other Side of You 3.69 avg rating — 358 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Mr Golightly's Holiday: A Novel 3.41 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 2003 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Instances of the Number 3: A Novel 3.32 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 2001 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Where Three Roads Meet: The Myth of Oedipus 3.42 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Dancing Backwards: A Novel 3.29 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Aphrodite's Hat 3.28 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Miss Garnet's Engelen 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2001	My rating:
	The Other Side of You: A Novel 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Mr Golightly's Holiday: A Novel 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2005	My rating:

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“You think I'm strong because I sound off and go on about things and am very direct and seem very full of myself...but the truth is, I am much, much feebler than you. I just go on like this to keep my end up. You think what you're doing is right and that gives you strength. You see, I know I'm not right, I know there is no right. The only "right" I am is that I know what I like and what I want, and what I like and what I want is you, more than anyone else in all the world does, or could."

Thomas to Elizabeth "The Other Side of You”
― Salley Vickers

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“We all long for someone with whom we are able to share our peculiar burdens of being alive.”
― Salley Vickers

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“There are few things more mysterious than endings. I mean, for example, when did the Greek gods end, exactly? Was there a day when Zeus waved magisterially down from Olympus and Aphrodite and her lover Ares, and her crippled husband Hephaestus ) I always felt sorry for him), and all the rest got rolled up like a worn-out carpet?”
― Salley Vickers

tags: aphrodite-s-hat , era , funny , gods , greek , irony , love-affair , romantic , time

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