She has worked, variously, as a cleaner, a dancer, an artist’s model, a teacher of children with special needs, a university teacher of literature, and a psychoanalyst. She won a state scholarship to St Paul’s Girl’s School and went on to read English at Newnham College Cambridge. One of her father's favourite poets Salley Vickers was born in Liverpool, the home of her mother, and grew up as the child of parents in the British Communist Party. Her principal interests are opera, bird watching, dancing, and poetry. She now writes full time and lectures widely on many subjects, particularly the connections between, art, literature, psychology and religion. Her first novel, ‘Miss Garnet’s Angel’, became an international word-of-mouth bestseller.
'Underneath the delightful patina of nostalgia for post-War England, there are stern and spiky questions about why we are allowing our children to be robbed of their heritage of story.Salley Vickers was born in Liverpool, the home of her mother, and grew up as the child of parents in the British Communist Party. The Librarian is a moving testament to the joy of reading and the power of books to change and inspire us all. But her love affair with the local married GP, and her befriending of his precious daughter, her neighbour's son and her landlady's neglected grandchild, ignite the prejudices of the town, threatening her job and the very existence of the library with dramatic consequences for them all. Her mission is to fire the enthusiasm of the children of East Mole for reading. 'Vickers sees with a clear eye and writes with a light hand she's a presence worth cherishing in the ranks of modern novelists.' Philip Pullman In 1958, Sylvia Blackwell, fresh from one of the new post-war Library Schools, takes up a job as children's librarian in a run down library in the market town of East Mole.
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