UK REVIEWS

"Vickers captures the cruel beauty and faded glamour of the city and writes like a haunted angel"
The Times

"Rich, complex and haunting .. miraculously, she makes the ancient story as riveting as Miss Garnet's own adventures"
Sunday Times

"Salley Vickers weaves together a modern fable of emotional growth with the old Biblical tale of Tobias and the Angel. the result is a challenging and unusual book, in which serious religious themes are explored with the lightest of touches"
Sunday Telegraph

"It is one of those tales which makes such an impression at first reading that it haunts one's mind for months afterwards. Re-reading it in paperback exerted the same fascination and moved me as much as it did a year ago"
The Times

"Miss Garnet's emotional reawakening has touched many readers, making this gentle joyful novel a word-of-mouth success"
Independent on Sunday

"This enjoyable, multilayered novel contemplates existential themes - religion, life, death and love and the ways in which these themes are juxtaposed insists on the harmonious closure which is achieved in both narratives"
Times Literary Supplement                        

"Reading this book is sometimes like reading a Renaissance painting ...All lovers of Venice should read this book"
The Spectator

"Vickers heroine is a wonderful snub to publishing's current belief that the over-35s are not worth writing for or about"
Guardian

"This poised and understaded tale glints with wit and insight - a delight"
Daily Mail

"Miss Garnet's Angel is a remarkable novel, whose genuine originality is the result not of flashiness but something far more substantial: imaginative intensity. This is not revealed in weighty digressions but distilled into suggestive images and precise relations. It is a vivid and fresh novel, deliciously entertaining and - which is rare for good novels - a happy book"        
London Magazine

"Constantly entertaining, and beautifully written in limpid prose, this is also a profound novel that chronicles how a non-believer.. is completely transformed under the impact of a world filled with religious art"
Art Quarterly

"In her exploration of the mysteries of Christian belief Salley Vickers touches on aspects of Judaism and Zoroastrianism that will deepen understanding for believers and non-believers alike. This is an adventure story in various dimensions, all of them gripping ... "
The Ham & High

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