- Hardcover: 292 pages
- Publisher: Fourth Estate; 1st edition (3 April 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007165447
- ISBN-13: 978-0007165445
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 14.2 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 328,598 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘There is something rare and special about Vickers as a novelist. In exploring the connections between faith and imagination, art and redemption, religion and science in an intelligent, unusual but very readable way, she manages to touch something buried deep in all of us. It gives her work a quietly compelling quality.’ Peter Stanford, Independent
‘Kindred spirits and soul-mates are at the heart of Salley Vickers’ new novel set in a South Coast psychiatric institution and in Rome…This is a fine and multi-layered novel which suggests that suffering is necessary and that opportunities for happiness should be taken whenever offered.’ Daily Mail
‘Compelling.’ Alex Clark, Observer
‘Ferociously readable.’ Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph
‘Love and pain, death and life, self-knowledge and insensibility – all these big, vital themes converge in this moving, utterly engrossing novel.’ Guardian
‘The lives of the characters in this gently absorbing novel continue to resonate with the failures, possibilities, regrets and redemptions – consoled and mirrored by art – that we all endure.’ Carol Ann Duffy, Telegraph
Philip Pullman
'A writer whose subtle intelligence and unobtrusive command of narrative I always enjoy'
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91 of 93 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a very fine novel about human frailty. As I read it I felt understood, and it also made me question my own life and the decisions I have made. This author has a knack of opening doors in the mind which have been kept shut, or locked, a rare quality. I don't cry easily but I wept several times reading this. It was recommended to me by a high court judge, who is also not given to tears. It is however a discreet book, not at all sentimental and the writing is beautifully cool and precise.
20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have read all Salley Vickers' novels, and liked them all, especially Miss Garnet. But this is easily the best. I began it at 9 o clock last night and read until I had finished it at 4 am. Seven hours, the length of the conversation David, the narrator, has with Elizabeth, his patient. It is a profoundly moving novel, full of insight and shrewd observation. And wonderfully written. An absolute winner. It will outsell even Miss Garnet.
39 of 40 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have read all Salley Vickers's novels but this is easily the best. It has a command and authority which takes you at once into the story so that you want to read on. The cast of characters is broad, a black schizophrenic cleaner, a bewildered Pakistani Muslim, a man who believes he has a wolf trapped in his skull (my favourite) but the characters who really engross us are Dr David Macbride and his patient Elizabeth. The latter has attempted suicide, which is why she is under this psychiatrist's care but what is most compelling about her story is the way it shadows her doctor's, so that in the end the two stories become intertwined and the two characters are linked by their tragedies. I loved the desciptions of Rome and Caravaggio. There is a very subtle ending. A very rich book and it is also beatifully written.
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Lyrical and Thought-Provoking
A beautifully written novel about therapy, art and what makes a happy relationship. David is a middle-aged psychotherapist based near Brighton, living with the beautiful and... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Kate Hopkins
Engaging and Poignant
Without giving away too many spoilers, as this book has quite a narrow narrative and storyline, so it would be easy to do so, I would just say that if you like a book where the... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Yvonne
The only Vickers novel I haven't liked
I read "Miss Garnet's Angel", loved it and went on to read all Salley Vickers' other books - this is the only one I haven't liked. Read more
Published 11 months ago by K. Cutmore
disappointing...
Having had Miss Garnet's Angel recommended by a friend and loving that book, I went on to read The Other Side of You. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Linds
Depressing and boring.
I bought this book thinking I'd learn something about depressions and at the same time read an interesting novel. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Brandy in spain
unlikable characters
The general outline of this book is good, about a psychiatrist who through talking to his patient learns a lot about his life, but unfortunately the main character (the... Read more
Published 19 months ago by miss_spookiness
Compelling story of sadness, longing and unfulfilled dreams....
David is a psychiatrist who becomes fascinated by the troubled Elizabeth. She has tried to commit suicide and is a patient at his hospital. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Wynne Kelly
Blissful writing and wonderfully thought provoking
Sally Vickers at her best. Beautiful elegant phrasing and thought provoking prose.
The person who gave this the one star review complaining of racism and dinner parties... Read more
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Published 22 months ago by Penelope Simpson
One of the worst books I have ever read in my entire life
If pretentious twaddle, rascist stereotypes and the middle classes having dinner parties are your thing, buy this book, otherwise, leave well alone.
Published on 20 May 2010 by alimarcam
A really good read
I found this book at the National Gallery shop in London. The shop stocks any book - fiction or fact - which has a connection to art. Read more
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