Salley Vickers Books in Order

Salley Vickers is a multifaceted writer, born in Liverpool to parents in the British Communist Party. She attended St Paul's Girl's School on a state scholarship before reading English at Newnham College Cambridge. With a diverse background, Vickers has worked as a cleaner, dancer, artist's model, teacher of children with special needs, university lecturer of literature, and psychoanalyst. Her debut novel, 'Miss Garnet's Angel', achieved international success through word-of-mouth recommendations. Now a full-time writer, Vickers lectures extensively on the connections between art, literature, psychology, and religion. Her passions include opera, bird watching, dancing, and poetry, all of which are deeply intertwined with her writing. Her name, Salley, is a nod to the Irish poet W.B. Yeats, whose poem 'Down by the salley gardens' inspired her parents to choose this unique and evocative name.