Salley Vickers is an English novelist whose works include the word-of-mouth bestseller "Miss Garnet's Angel','"Mr Golightly's Holiday'","'The Other Side of You'" and "'Where Three Roads Meet'", a retelling of the Oedipus myth to Sigmund Freud in the last months of his life. Her books touch on big philosophical themes of religion, art, creativity and death. She also writes poetry. She was born in Liverpool in 1948.

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  • Salley Vickers is an English novelist whose works include the word-of-mouth bestseller "Miss Garnet's Angel','"Mr Golightly's Holiday'","'The Other Side of You'" and "'Where Three Roads Meet'", a retelling of the Oedipus myth to Sigmund Freud in the last months of his life. Her books touch on big philosophical themes of religion, art, creativity and death. She also writes poetry. She was born in Liverpool in 1948. Her mother was a social worker and her father a trades union leader, both members of the British communist party until 1956 and then very committed socialists. She was brought up in Stoke-on-Trent and London, and read English Literature at Cambridge University. Following this, she taught children with special needs and then English literature at Stanford, Oxford and the Open University and was a WEA and further education tutor for adult education classes. She then trained as an Jungian analytical psychotherapist, working in the NHS and also specialised in helping people who were creatively blocked. She gave up her psychoanalytic work in 2002, although she still lectures on the connections between literature and psychology. She now writes full time and lives in London. Her father was a committed supporter of Irish republicanism and her first name, "Salley", is spelled with an 'e' because it is the Irish for 'willow' as in the W B Yeats poem, "Down by the salley gardens" a favourite of her parents. She has two sons from her first marriage. In 2002, her second marriage, to the Irish writer and broadcaster Frank Delaney, was dissolved. In 2002, she was a judge for the Booker Prize for Fiction.
  • Salley Vickers ist eine englische Schriftstellerin. Vickers unterrichtete zunächst Englische Literatur an der Open University und in Oxford und Stanford und entschied sich dann aus Ungenügen an der akademischen Arbeit für einen beruflichen Neuananfang in der Analytischen Psychologie. Angeregt durch einen Besuch in Venedig, begann sie 1998 mit ihrem ersten Roman Miss Garnet's Angel . Gleichzeitig mit diesem erschien 2001 ihr zweiter Roman Instances of the Number 3 und zwei Jahre später dann Mr Golightly’s holiday . Ihr vierter Roman The Other Side of You erschien im April 2006; eine deutsche Übersetzung ist angekündigt. Ihre Bücher erreichten bisher jeweils mehrere Auflagen und wurden unter anderem ins Deutsche, Französische, Spanische und Portugiesische übersetzt. Salley Vickers lebt und arbeitet in London und Bath.
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  • Salley Vickers is an English novelist whose works include the word-of-mouth bestseller "Miss Garnet's Angel','"Mr Golightly's Holiday'","'The Other Side of You'" and "'Where Three Roads Meet'", a retelling of the Oedipus myth to Sigmund Freud in the last months of his life. Her books touch on big philosophical themes of religion, art, creativity and death. She also writes poetry. She was born in Liverpool in 1948.
  • Salley Vickers ist eine englische Schriftstellerin. Vickers unterrichtete zunächst Englische Literatur an der Open University und in Oxford und Stanford und entschied sich dann aus Ungenügen an der akademischen Arbeit für einen beruflichen Neuananfang in der Analytischen Psychologie. Angeregt durch einen Besuch in Venedig, begann sie 1998 mit ihrem ersten Roman Miss Garnet's Angel .
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