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Salley Vickers is the author of many highly acclaimed novels, including 'Miss Garnet’s Angel', 'The Cleaner of Chartres', 'Cousins', 'The Librarian', which was a top ten Sunday Times bestseller, 'Grandmothers', and two short story collections, the latest, 'The Boy Who Could See Death' (Viking 2015). She was born in Liverpool and grew up in the Potteries, in Stoke-on-Trent, where her parents were active members of the Communist Party. She has worked as a teacher of children with special needs, a university teacher of literature and as a Jungian psychoanalyst. Salley will be talking about her new novel 'The Gardener', in which two sisters buy a ramshackle cottage together and embark on a journey of history, hurt and the healing power of nature.