I've just finished Salley Vickers' novel, Miss Garnet's Angel, and am about to read it again. Vickers lectures on literature and is a Jungian psychotherapist - she is also a writer who can do that rare thing, take religious, metaphysical and psychological themes and weave them into a narrative that helps us love and affirm our own humanity. The painting is by Vittore Carpaccio, and it features only briefly in the novel - it is however used on the cover. Once I've read the novel again I'll come back to this - but I'm happy to encounter a novelist I hadn't read before - and discover I have two friends for whom a Salley Vickers' novel is a favourite.
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Glad to hear that you've enjoyed Sally Vickers who is one of my favourite authors. Can I recommend The Other Side of You by her, which I have read twice and will read again. It could be one of my all-time favourite books - art, theology, humanity. It inspired Paul Goodliff to paint a picture.
Posted by: Geoff Colmer | November 25, 2010 at 10:40 AM
Hi Geoff - The Other Side of You is on my list - I'm now into Mr Golightly's Holiday. Glad to see you back on the blog - thought you'd done a virtual abscond!
Posted by: Jim Gordon | November 25, 2010 at 11:00 AM
I was given this book last year and it sits unread on my shelf. Your post has encouraged me to make it the next novel I shall read!
Posted by: ang almond | November 25, 2010 at 11:37 PM
She's one of my favourites too!
Posted by: Ruthg | November 26, 2010 at 04:27 PM
I love Miss Garnet's Angel - I read it just before I took 68 school musicians to Venice!
Posted by: Chris | November 26, 2010 at 10:02 PM