The brilliant new work from the bestselling author of ‘Miss Garnet’s Angel’ and ‘The Other Side of You’.The brilliant new work from the bestselling author of ‘Miss Garnet’s Angel’ and ‘The Other Side of You’.Violet Hetherington has taken the rash step of joining a transatlantic cruise ship to New York to visit Edwin, an old friend. As she makes the six day crossing, she relives the traumatic events that led to her losing Edwin's friendship, and abandoning her career as a poet, for the safety of marriage and domesticity.Despite her natural reserve, she meets a rich variety of passengers travelling with her, who affect her understanding of her own past. Most significantly, she meets Dino, the dance host, whose motives in befriending Vi are shady, but who teaches her to ballroom dance - and inadvertently helps her to recover from her past.Moving between the late sixties and the present day, Dancing Backwards is written with the lightness of touch and psychological insight which characterise Salley Vickers' acclaimed work. This bittersweet novel is subtle, poignant and wonderfully entertaining.Salley Vickers is the author of the bestselling Miss Garnet’s Angel, Instances of the Number 3, Mr Golightly’s Holiday and The Other Side of You. She has worked as a dancer, an artist’s model, a university teacher of literature and a psychoanalyst.Requires internet connection for purchase, plus iPod or other Audible-compatible player or iTunes software on Mac OS X or Windows• The new novel from the bestselling author of ‘Miss Garnet’s Angel’ and ‘Instances of the Number Three’.• ‘Miss Garnet’s Angel’ has sold over 256,000 copies in the UK since publication and ‘Instances of the Number’ 3 was a Sunday Times hardback bestseller.• Salley Vicker’s most recent novel ‘The Other Side of You’ has sold over 68,000 copies so far.• Review and feature coverage assured for this popular writer.
Published by: HarperCollins Publishers