"Grandmothers is the story of three very different women: fiercely independent Nan, who leads a secret life as an award-winning poet when she is not teaching her grandson Billy how to lie; elegant Blanche, who, deprived of the company of her beloved granddaughter Kitty by her hostile daughter-in-law, seeks solace in alcohol and takes to shoplifting; and shy, bookish Minna, who in her peaceful shepherd's hut shares with her surrogate granddaughter Rose her passion for reading. The outlook of all three women subtly alters when through their encounters with each other they discover that the past is always with us and that we go on learning and changing until the very end.
Grandmothers is a beautifully observed, sometimes subversive, often tender and elegiac novel from the bestselling author of The Librarian."
There's more on Salley Vickers here.
Sometimes subversive, I like that, and the cover draws me in.
Posted by: Terra | 22 August 2019 at 05:42 AM
Interesting that they've chosen an early twentieth century-style cover. I have a lot of books which look like that!
Posted by: callmemadam | 22 August 2019 at 09:02 AM
Lovely cover - similar to the hardback cover of her last book. I have thoroughly enjoyed all the books by Salley Vickers that I have read so far so this is one to look forward to especially as a grandmother myself.
Posted by: LizF | 24 August 2019 at 10:49 PM