The new novel from Salley Vickers, Sunday Times bestselling author
of The Librarian and Grandmothers Artist, Hassie Days, and her
sister, Margot, buy a run down Jacobean house in Hope Wenlock on
the Welsh Marches. While Margot continues her London life in high
finance, Hassie is left alone to work the large, long-neglected
garden. She is befriended by eccentric, sharp-tongued, Miss Foot,
who recommends, Murat, an Albanian migrant, made to feel out of
place among the locals, to help Hassie in the garden. As she works
the garden in Murat's peaceful company, Hassie ruminates on her
past life: the sibling rivalry that tainted her childhood and the
love affair that left her with painful, unanswered questions. But
as she begins to explore the history of the house and the
mysterious nearby wood, old hurts begin to fade as she experiences
the healing power of nature and discovers other worlds. In her
haunting new novel, Salley Vickers, the bestselling author of The
Librarian and The Cleaner of Chartres, writes with the profound
psychological insight and sense of the numinous power of place that
is the hallmark of all her novels. 'Salley Vickers sees with a
clear eye and writes with a light hand. She's a presence worth
cherishing' Philip Pullman 'The Gardener is a novel of regrowth
& regeneration, of sisters overcoming a toxic parental legacy
& of the healing power of seed packets' Patrick Gale 'Steeped
in a sense of the redemptive power of place, Sally Vickers's 11th
novel is a paean to green-fingered regeneration that is both
rigorous and charming' Observer 'Profoundly moving, healing and
wise, this is the perfect antidote to our urban anxiety' Joanne
Harris, author of Chocolat
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