Grandmothers Audiobook (Free)

Presented by Penguin.

The new novel from Salley Vickers, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian.

Grandmothers is the tale of three very different women and their relationship with younger generation: fiercely independent Nan, who network marketing leads a secret life seeing that an award-winning poet when she actually is not teaching her grandson Billy how exactly to lie; glamorous Blanche, deprived of the business of her beloved granddaughter Kitty by her hostile daughter-in-law, who discovers solace in rebellious approximately Grandmothers drinking and shoplifting; and timid, bookish Minna who in the safety of shepherd’s hut shares with her surrogate granddaughter Rose her enthusiasm for reading. The view of all three females subtly alters when through their encounters with each other they discover that the past can be always around and that people continue learning and changing until the very end.

Grandmothers is a beautifully observed, sometimes subversive, often sensitive and elegiac book from the Weekend Times bestselling writer of The Librarian.

‘Vickers sees with a apparent eyesight and writes having a light hands. She’s a presence worthy of cherishing in the rates of contemporary novelists.’ Philip Pullman

‘Vickers has a formidable knack for laying open the human heart’ Weekend Times