Salley Vickers





Salley Vickers

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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


Average rating: 3.59 · 3,012 ratings · 513 reviews · 13 distinct works · Similar authors
Miss Garnet's Angel
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 1,046 ratings — published 2000 — 15 editions
The Other Side of You
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 527 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions
Mr Golightly's Holiday
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 384 ratings — published 2003 — 11 editions
Instances of the Number 3
3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 350 ratings — published 2001 — 13 editions
The Cleaner of Chartres
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions
Where Three Roads Meet: The...
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 202 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions
Dancing Backwards: A Novel
3.31 of 5 stars 3.31 avg rating — 227 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions
Aphrodite's Hat
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
Sweet And Comfortable Words...
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2006
A Smile of Fortune
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1911 — 4 editions
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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

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

“It is hard to account for the common human resistance to happiness, unless it is that we would rather be crippled by what we lack than risk the pain that is one potential consequence of placing our secret selves in others' hands...to take delight in being loved requires nerve.

"The Other Side of You”
Salley Vickers

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