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The 2009 Award

 

Where Three Roads Meet

 

Where Three Roads Meet

by Salley Vickers

 

 

Nominated by:

  • Chicago Public Library, USA.

 

Publisher of Nominated Edition:

Canongate Books

 

the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors
ABOUT THE BOOK

It is 1938 and Sigmund Freud, suffering from the debilitating effects of cancer, has been permitted by the Nazis to leave Vienna. He seeks refuge in England, taking up residence in the house in Hampstead in which he will die only fifteen months later. But his last months are made vivid by the arrival of a stranger, who comes and goes according to Freud's state of health. Who is the mysterious visitor and why has he come to tell the famed proponent of the Oedipus complex his strange story?

Set partly in pre-war London and partly in ancient Greece, Where Three Roads Meet is as brilliantly compelling as it is moving. Former psychoanalyst and acclaimed novelist Salley Vickers revisits a crime committed long ago which still has disturbing reverberations for us all.


(From Publisher).

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

As well as being an acclaimed author, Salley Vickers is a trained analytical psychologist and lectures widely on the connections between literature, psychology and religion. She lives and works in London and Bath.

 

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