· N ear the beginning of Salley Vickers ’s new novel, one of her characters says: “All ways of life have a cost.”. For the trio of elderly main characters in Grandmothers, the cost appears to Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. Salley Vickers tells the story of three quite different characters who are grandmothers (strictly, two are grandmothers and one is a good friend who fulfils the role) who /5. In the novel’s untroubled shifts between its three different narrative strands, Grandmothers makes for absorbing, undemanding reading. Being a childless woman of childbearing age can be Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins.
Salley Vickers' writing lit up my imagination, making me feel insightful and connected and sad and refreshed and better equipped to deal with my life as I flew on the borrowed wings of her words. The book shares moments from the lightly interconnected lives of three grandmothers, initially strangers to each other, as they spend time with. Grandmothers by Salley Vickers I read this book having just become a Grandmother for the first time and was fascinated by the way in which these very different grandmothers were portrayed. I thought that it was a very interesting study of intergenerational relationships and the way in which they are forged. Brought to you by Penguin. The new novel from Salley Vickers, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian, available for pre-order now 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.
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. Author: Salley Vickers. Published by: Viking Books. Genre: Fiction. Length: pages. Reading dates: November Grandmothers is the story of three very different women and their relationships with the younger generation. Nan is a well respected poet but writes under a pen name so no one knows her true identity. In the novel’s untroubled shifts between its three different narrative strands, Grandmothers makes for absorbing, undemanding reading. Being a childless woman of childbearing age can be.
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