![]() ![]() ![]() This one was for my grandchildren because it celebrates the value of stories, which they very sensibly enjoy. How would you pitch your latest book in up to 25 words?Ī book set in the 1950s, exploring the value of reading and libraries, tracing their effects on the lives of three children with a modern-day conclusion. I play or chat with my grandchildren, garden, walk, daydream. Pencil for notebook keyboard for first draft and thereafter. If you have one, what is your pre-writing ritual?ĭon’t get dressed, don’t look in the mirror or read emails or newspapers.įull-time (supposedly) but in my view a writer must also live to absorb material for the writing. I write where the book is principally located so that means it is pretty peripatetic. ![]() Where and when do you do most of your writing? In rural Wiltshire, where The Librarian is set When she falls in love with an older man, her interactions with his precocious daughter and her neighbours’ son have alarming unintended consequences. ![]() Salley Vickers’ latest novel The Librarian is the story of Sylvia Blackwell, a woman in her twenties in the 1950s who moves to the quaint Wiltshire market town of East Mole to work in a library. “ No one can dig down into the shrouded recesses of the human heart quite as forensically as Vickers.” Sunday Times ![]()
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