The Gardener is a beautifully observed tale of sisterhood, secrets, belonging and new beginnings, from the best-selling author of The Librarian. Sylvia Blackwell, a young woman in her twenties, moves to East Mole, a quaint market town in middle England, to start a. Recently into paperback this is a warm and energising story of a young girl bringing life. When the sisters hire Murat, who has recently arrived in Hope Wenlock from Albania, to be their gardener, they unwittingly unleash tensions in the quiet English village they have begun to call home. The Librarian, by Salley Vickers ( paperback). What she had seen, when Margot's persistence eroded her resistance, was a rambling redbrick building, covered in Virginia creeper, with a sprawling garden, invaded by weeds, yellow fungi, and clumps of brooding nettles.'

The house was timbered, roomy and, certainly on the outside, picturesque 'a jigsaw picture house', it was described by the agents (a description which had for some time set Hassie against going to view it). The Gardener by Vickers, Salley at .uk - ISBN 10: 0241482798 - ISBN 13: 9780241482797 - Viking. 'Two sisters, Halcyon and Marguerite Days, after heated exchanges and months of debate, had put together the money left them by their father and bought Knight's Fee, a house in Hope Wenlock, just on the English side of the Welsh Borders. 'Underneath the delightful patina of nostalgia for post-War England, there are stern and spiky questions about why we are allowing our children to be robbed of their heritage of story.A charming new novel about two sisters who buy a ramshackle country house together, from the bestselling author of The Librarian and Grandmothers The Librarian is a moving testament to the joy of reading and the power of books to change and inspire us all. But her love affair with the local married GP, and her befriending of his precious daughter, her neighbour's son and her landlady's neglected grandchild, ignite the prejudices of the town, threatening her job and the very existence of the library with dramatic consequences for them all.

Her mission is to fire the enthusiasm of the children of East Mole for reading. 'Vickers sees with a clear eye and writes with a light hand she's a presence worth cherishing in the ranks of modern novelists.' Philip Pullman In 1958, Sylvia Blackwell, fresh from one of the new post-war Library Schools, takes up a job as children's librarian in a run down library in the market town of East Mole.

The Librarian by Salley Vickers