Revisit a crime committed long ago which has disturbing reverberations for us all ...
Salley Vickers has worked as a teacher of literature and a psychoanalyst. She is the author of the bestselling Miss Garnet's Angel, Mr Golightly's Holiday, Instances of the Number 3 and The Other Side of You. She now writes full time.
* The novel is a bright, hard, fine-cut gem The Sunday Times * Simply and strongly done, laying bare many of our mortal anxieties The Times * This is a book to dwell on, to ponder, and delight in Scotsman * [A] witty, ingenious novel ... Vickers is comically irreverent about her own profession and deft at teasing out the slippery truths of Oedipus's tale. -- Anushka Asthana Observer 20080601 * The latest in Canongate's admirable series of myths ... shows the author at her most beguiling ... full of insight and humour, offering a glimpse into the workings of a great mind faced with the conundrum of human suffering. -- Christina Koning The Times 20080614 * A delicate, moving intersection of exile and solace amid dark predictions of impending catastrophe. -- Catherine Taylor Guardian 20080607
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