Praise for Instances
of the Number 3
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Her
voice rings true and strong
Jane
Gardam, The Spectator, 04/08/01
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Wife,
mistress, and cross dresser, all find happiness of a sort after
a story told with a sense of calm compassion. This quality may
be the secret of Miss Vickers's growing following.
John Patten, Country Life, 30/08/01
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I
was very worried that the ending would prove unconvincingly
hymeneal - but it turned out to be one of the most beautiful
I had read. It affirms, in a sigh of recognition, that there
is more than dignity in being the third - or indeed alone.
Murrough
O'Brien, Daily Telegraph, August 11th 2001
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Vickers's
novel is gallopingly readable and its two principal women are
compellingly drawn.
Julie
Myerson Guardian Saturday August 18, 2001
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The
author of the acclaimed best seller Miss Garnet's Angel has
written an entirely original second novel that explores the
links between various combinations of three people and the relationship
between life, the experiences that shape it, and death.
Hello! Magazine, 07/08/01
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'...the
sign of a real novelist - effortlessly taking a new line while
retaining the same unmistakable fictional personality. Instances
of the Number 3 is compulsive; like the Sultan listening to
Scheherazade'
John Bayley
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'Salley
Vickers writes with a luminous and exacting perception that
reveals us all as ghosts of ourselves, haunting and haunted
by past, present and future loves.'
Russell Hoban
