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When
Vickery played the role of Florence in the film The Good Soldier,
based on the novel by Ford Madox Ford, she spent some time unravelling
the complex structure of the book and was inspired to write her
first novel, FOCUSING, which was
published by Gollancz. The Times Literary Supplement wrote “Vickery
Turner manages this quirky plot with skill, making her heroine’s
idee fixe, and her eventual vindication, both plausible and funny...altogether
a lively and engaging performance.” |
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| Lovers
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Her second novel,
LOVERS OF AFRICA, was also published
by Gollancz and was a Black Swan paperback. It was read by Anna
Massey on BBC radio to coincide with the paperback publication.
In the United States it was published by Dutton under the title
LOVE AND HUNGER.
Kirkus Review called it, “A romantic, marvelously intelligent
comedy of manners that celebrates two off beat charmers.”
The Boston Sun Globe wrote, “To her everlasting credit she
has concocted a touching and very rich romantic comedy out of
elements of something much darker.” |
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Testimony Of Daniel Pagels |
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Her
third novel THE TESTIMONY OF DANIEL PAGELS,
features an extraordinary Southern California murder trial in
which the defense uses quantum physics. In the UK it was published
by Macdonald (now Little Brown) and Warner Books in paperback.
In the USA it was published by Scribners. The Daily Telegraph
wrote, “Immensely enjoyable and original to boot.”
The playwright Christopher Fry said, “I was caught up by
it in the first page and carried fascinated through to the end...a
remarkable and brilliant book.” |
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Vickery’s
fourth novel DELICATE MATTERS,
a comic story of a thirteen year old girl who does a consumer
report on sex for her school social studies class. It was published
by Little Brown in hardback and Warner Books in paperback. In
Germany it was published under the title PEINLICHE ANGELEGENHEITEN.
The Irish Tatler wrote, “Real and sad and very, very funny.
You don’t have to be a teenager or parent to enjoy this
book. In fact many of Jane’s conclusions about sex and
human relationships could teach us a thing or two.”
Claire Rayner, the author and journalist, wrote “Charming,
funny, moving, clever and marvelously readable. Vickery Turner
is a helluva writer.”
Cosmopolitan called it “...spot on comedy.”
The book was read in ten parts on BBC radio and repeated due
to popular acclaim.
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Her fifth novel
entitled LOST HEIR is a about a long
lost love between an English girl and a German soldier who is
a POW in post war Britain. The mystery of their relationship is
unravelled fifty years later by competing genealogists, each vying
for a chunk of a multi-million dollar inheritance. In the process,
the novel examines the concept of national guilt and how it affects
the German soul. |
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