The new novel from Salley Vickers Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian and Grandmothers Artist Hassie Days and her sister Margot buy a run down Jacobean house in Hope Wenlock on the Welsh Marches. While Margot continues her London life in high finance Hassie is left alone to work the large longneglected garden. She is befriended by eccentric sharptongued Miss Foot who recommends Murat an Albanian migrant made to feel out of place among the locals to help Hassie in the garden.As she works the garden in Murats peaceful company Hassie ruminates on her past life the sibling rivalry that tainted her childhood and the love affair that left her with painful unanswered questions.But as she begins to explore the history of the house and the mysterious nearby wood old hurts begin to fade as she experiences the healing power of nature and discovers other worlds.In her haunting new novel Salley Vickers the bestselling author of The Librarian and The Cleaner of Chartres writes with the profound psychological insight and sense of the numinous power of place that is the hallmark of all her novels.Salley Vickers sees with a clear eye and writes with a light hand. Shes a presence worth cherishing Philip PullmanThe Gardener is a novel of regrowth amp regeneration of sisters overcoming a toxic parental legacy amp of the healing power of seed packets Patrick GaleSteeped in a sense of the redemptive power of place Sally Vickerss 11th novel is a paean to greenfingered regeneration that is both rigorous and charming ObserverProfoundly moving healing and wise this is the perfect antidote to our urban anxiety Joanne Harris author of Chocolat