The Other Side of You

Author:   Salley Vickers
Publisher:   St Martin's Press
ISBN:  

9780312426798


Pages:   262
Publication Date:   04 March 2008
Format:   Paperback
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Salley Vickers's novel opens with the arrival of a new patient in the office of therapist David McBride. The woman, Elizabeth Cruikshank, has just attempted suicide. As the two begin to explore her history, David takes an uncommon interest in her case, a curiosity driven by a terrible loss in his own life. During one long night's dialogue, patient and therapist move together through the past, each one approaching the source of the grief that has made them who they are.

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Author:   Salley Vickers
Publisher:   St Martin's Press
Imprint:   St Martin's Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.240kg
ISBN:  

9780312426798


ISBN 10:   0312426798
Pages:   262
Publication Date:   04 March 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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<p> A heartbreaking novel and, yes, a love story. If you enjoy the work of Marilynne Robinson, Penelope Fitzgerald, James Salter, or Anita Brookner, you should be reading Vickers. -- The Washington Post Book World <p> Splendid . . . &nbsp;A delicate, intelligent novel . . . intricately constructed. --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air <p> An accomplished and absorbing novel about revelations on both sides of the therapeutic process. --The Boston Globe <p> Vickers tackles two of the essential questions--how to love and how to lose--with such passion that the heart, like Elizabeth's own, cannot help but burn. --The Observer (London)<p> A smart, haunting exploration of love and loss. --The New York Observer <p> A former psychologist herself, Vickers brings an erudite precision and an elegant perception to her lyrically poetic testament to the vitality of love and the human capacity to both seek out and run from its ennobling grace. -- Booklist


A heartbreaking novel and, yes, a love story. If you enjoy the work of Marilynne Robinson, Penelope Fitzgerald, James Salter, or Anita Brookner, you should be reading Vickers. -- The Washington Post Book World <p> Splendid . . . A delicate, intelligent novel . . . intricately constructed. --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air <p> An accomplished and absorbing novel about revelations on both sides of the therapeutic process. --The Boston Globe <p> Vickers tackles two of the essential questions--how to love and how to lose--with such passion that the heart, like Elizabeth's own, cannot help but burn. --The Observer (London)<p> A smart, haunting exploration of love and loss. --The New York Observer <p> A former psychologist herself, Vickers brings an erudite precision and an elegant perception to her lyrically poetic testament to the vitality of love and the human capacity to both seek out and run from its ennobling grace. -- Booklist


A heartbreaking novel and, yes, a love story. If you enjoy the work of Marilynne Robinson, Penelope Fitzgerald, James Salter, or Anita Brookner, you should be reading Vickers. -- The Washington Post Book World Splendid . . . A delicate, intelligent novel . . . intricately constructed. --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air An accomplished and absorbing novel about revelations on both sides of the therapeutic process. --The Boston Globe Vickers tackles two of the essential questions--how to love and how to lose--with such passion that the heart, like Elizabeth's own, cannot help but burn. --The Observer (London) A smart, haunting exploration of love and loss. --The New York Observer A former psychologist herself, Vickers brings an erudite precision and an elegant perception to her lyrically poetic testament to the vitality of love and the human capacity to both seek out and run from its ennobling grace. -- Booklist A heartbreaking novel and, yes, a love story. If you enjoy the work of Marilynne Robinson, Penelope Fitzgerald, James Salter, or Anita Brookner, you should be reading Vickers. -- The Washington Post Book World Splendid . . . A delicate, intelligent novel . . . intricately constructed. --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air An accomplished and absorbing novel about revelations on both sides of the therapeutic process. --The Boston Globe Vickers tackles two of the essential questions--how to love and how to lose--with such passion that the heart, like Elizabeth's own, cannot help but burn. --The Observer (London) A smart, haunting exploration of love and loss. --The New York Observer A former psychologist herself, Vickers brings an erudite precision and an elegant perception to her lyrically poetic testament to the vitality of love and the human capacity to both seek out and run from its ennobling grace. -- Booklist Love and pain, death and life, self knowledge and insensibility - all these big, vital themes converge in this moving, utterly engrossing novel. -- The Guardian The writing is so good and the structure so skilful that Vickers manages to make delicate and difficult notions vivid. Her territory is the faultline along which memories of loss are experienced by an individual both as integral to their identity and as constraints on their engagement with the present. This may be true of a great deal of fiction, but it is rare for a novel to present it so directly and with such success. -- John de Falbe, Spectator Vickers' astute descriptions of jealousy, passion and grief shift seamlessly from one character to another in the present without faltering ... In her experienced hands the characters are complex without being contrived. Vickers has turned a thwarted romance in to a serious page-turner. -- Time Out 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 compelling quality. -- Peter Stanford, Independent 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, Daily Telegraph The evocation of place, and the pervading sense ofsadness, are skilfully created, and the flawed humanity and depth of feeling of the characters are compelling. -- TLS A love story that is at once gentle and passionate, reckless and timid, optimistic and doomed. The appeal of the book lies in the tender, intimate quality of the prose. -- Financial Times A bittersweet tale of love, loss, sacrifice and regret. With experience of working as a psychoanalyst, Vickers elegantly weaves her knowledge into an insightful examination of the human condition. Her prose flows effortlessly ... a thoroughly engrossing novel. -- Scotland on Sunday Vickers writes elegantly but romantically about the process of analysis ... a good story, neatly and absorbingly told. -- Sunday Times With imagination, sensitivity and skill, Salley Vickers gives us valuable psychological and spiritual insights about grief, regret, and reconciliation. -- Karen Armstrong Salley Vickers takes the most interesting part of the analytical process-- when something unknown becomes known, moves out of shadow into light, which is tremendously moving to read about . . . This is a subtle and thoughtful novel and in the resolution there is anguish as well as calm. -- Sebastian Faulks The perceptions and insights are remarkable. I don' t think I have seen a comparable opening of the full truth of a heart and soul and mind and love. -- Russell Hoban Salley Vickers has managed the impossible in feeling her way into someone feeling his way into the mind of a troubled person. This is a powerful, sad, unforgettable tale. I found it profoundly moving. -- Julia Neuberger With imagination, sensitivity and skill, Salley Vickers gives us valuable psychological and spiritual insights about grief, regret, and reconciliation. --Karen Armstrong Salley Vickers takes the most interesting part of the analytical process--when something unknown becomes known, moves out of shadow into light, which is tremendously moving to read about . . . This is a subtle and thoughtful novel and in the resolution there is anguish as well as calm. --Sebastian Faulks The perceptions and insights are remarkable. I don't think I have seen a comparable opening of the full truth of a heart and soul and mind and love. --Russell Hoban Salley Vickers has managed the impossible in feeling her way into someone feeling his way into the mind of a troubled person. This is a powerful, sad, unforgettable tale. I found it profoundly moving. --Julia Neuberger


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A former psychologist and professor of English, Salley Vickers is the author of Miss Garnet's Angel, Instances of the Number 3, and Mr Golightly's Holiday. She lives in London.

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