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 Heart-warming, beautifully written and moving * The Times on 'Grandmothers' * No one can dig down into the shrouded recesses of the human heart quite as forensically as Vickers * Sunday Times * The Gardener is a novel of regrowth & regeneration, of sisters overcoming a toxic parental legacy & of the healing power of seed packets. Nicely prickly where other writers can be blandly thornless, Vickers never lets her reader, or her heroine, subside into complacency; there is always, she reminds us, more work to be done. This is the perfect fictional promise to draw us through a harsh winter. -- Patrick Gale An escapist, involving novel about relationships and two siblings coming to terms with their childhood and each other * Saga * Steeped in a sense of the redemptive power of place, Sally Vickers's 11th novel is a paean to green-fingered regeneration that is both rigorous and charming * Observer * With its sensitively drawn characters, this is a quiet and intelligent hymn to the restorative power of nature. Delightful * Mail on Sunday * The bestselling author of Miss Garnet's Angel and The Librarian, Vickers has been a Jungian therapist and her novels have always featured personal growth and transformation. This is no exception, as Hassie weathers bereavement, a break-up and midlife despair, but finds a sense of new beginnings and a feeling for the power of place. It also has some sharp social observation about the reality of moving out to the sticks in post-Brexit Britain * Sunday Times * Salley Vickers is skilled at transforming the everyday into something haunting. This tale of a woman's search for inner peace is no exception * Daily Express *