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Oct 2022
32m 54s

Salley Vickers with Isy Suttie

PENGUIN BOOKS UK
About this episode

 This week on the Penguin Podcast, Isy Suttie talks to best-selling author, Salley Vickers.

 

Salley joins us to discuss her latest novel, The Gardener.

 

Isy and Salley also psychoanalysis and its benefits, her affection towards children and their curiosity towards the mysteries of life, the power and different layers of silence, and how gardening during lockdown helped with the writing of her latest book. 


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