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´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.

Her mission is to fire the enthusiasm of the children of East Mole for reading. 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.

The Librarian is a moving testament to the joy of reading and the power of books to change and inspire us all.

"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." Frank Cottrell Boyce

´Vickers has a formidable knack for laying open the human heart´ Sunday Times

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The Librarian will wring the heart of anyone who fell in love with books as a child. It is a hymn to the power of children´s literature...delightful The Times

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Vickers, Salley
Salley Vickers is the author of many acclaimed novels including the best-selling Miss Garnet´s Angel, Mr Golightly´s Holiday, The Other Side of You and The Cleaner of Chartres (Viking 2012) and two short story collections, the latest The Boy Who Could See Death (Viking 2015). She has worked as a cleaner, a dancer, a teacher of children with special needs, a university lecturer and a psychoanalyst. She now writes and lectures full time. Find out more at www.salleyvickers.com or @SalleyVickers.

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