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  • Published: 4 November 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241995051
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $26.00

The Gardener




A charming new novel about two very different sisters who buy a ramshackle cottage together, from the bestselling author of The Librarian

'Two sisters, Hassie and Margot Days, after heated exchanges and months of debate, had put together the money left them by their father and bought a house in Hope Wenlock, just on the English side of the Welsh Borders. The house was timbered, roomy and, certainly on the outside, picturesque; "a jigsaw picture house", it was described by the agents (a description which had for some time set Hassie against going to view it). What she had seen, when Margot's persistence eroded her resistance, was a rambling redbrick building, covered in Virginia creeper, with a sprawling garden, invaded by weeds, yellow fungi, and clumps of brooding nettles. . .'

When the sisters hire Murat, who has recently arrived in Hope Wenlock from Albania, to be their gardener, they unwittingly unleash tensions in the quiet English village they have begun to call home. The Gardener is a beautifully observed tale of sisterhood, secrets, belonging and new beginnings, from the best-selling author of The Librarian.

  • Published: 4 November 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241995051
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $26.00

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Praise for The Gardener

Heart-warming, beautifully written and moving

The Times on 'Grandmothers'

Salley Vickers sees with a clear eye and writes with a light hand. She's a presence worth cherishing

Philip Pullman

Vickers writes of relationships with undaunted clarity

Adam Phillips

No one can dig down into the shrouded recesses of the human heart quite as forensically as Vickers

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