Book description
A wonderful collection of stories from the much-loved Salley Vickers.
The stories in this long-awaited collection by Salley Vickers all deal
with psychological aspects of love: love given and withheld, love craved
and lost, love met and disappointed; the differing shades of loves
between friends, between parents and children, between children and
other adults; love even, in one case, for a pet.
Psychologically acute, sharply written in lucid and often witty prose,
these stories, set in Venice, Greece and Rome as well as London and the
English countryside, take us into the complex geography of the human
heart. Sometimes joyous and humorous, sometimes melancholy and poignant,
this collection confirms Salley Vickers' reputation as one of our most
subtle and engaging writers. Salley Vickers is the author of six
novels, including the bestselling Miss Garnet's Angel, Instances of the
Number 3, Mr Golightly's Holiday and, most recently, Dancing Backwards.
She has worked as a dancer, an artist's model, a university teacher of
literature and a psychoanalyst.
