Grandmothers

The new novel from Salley Vickers, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian

'Heart-warming... Grandmothers is a beautifully written and moving celebration of this love, too often unsung, that reaches out across the generations' The Times

Grandmothers is the story of three very different women and their relationship with the younger generation: fiercely independent Nan, who leads a secret life as an award-winning poet when she is not teaching her grandson Billy how to lie; glamorous Blanche, deprived of the company of her beloved granddaughter Kitty by her hostile daughter-in-law, who finds solace in rebelliously taking to drink and shop lifting; and shy, bookish Minna who in the safety of 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 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian.

'A fond portrait of what it is to love a child, both yours and not... a tonic for the overlooked modern grandmother' Sunday Times

'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

Noul roman de la Salley Vickers, autorul cel mai bine vandut al Sunday Times al bibliotecarului „Incalzirea inimii ... Bunicile este o celebrare frumos scrisa si emotionanta a acestei iubiri, prea des neinteleasa, care se intinde de-a lungul generatiilor” trei femei foarte diferite si relatia lor cu generatia tanara: Nan extrem de independenta, care duce o viata secreta ca poeta premiata cand nu-l invata pe nepotul ei Billy cum sa minta; plin de farmec Blanche, lipsita de compania iubitei sale nepoate Kitty de catre nora sa ostila, care isi gaseste alinare in a lua rebel sa bea si sa faca cumparaturi; si timida, livra, Minna, care, in siguranta colibei de cioban, impartaseste cu nepoata ei surogat Rose, pasiunea pentru lectura.