Sally Page
After studying history at university, Sally moved to London to work in advertising. In her spare time she studied floristry at night school and eventually opened her own flower shop. Sally came to appreciate that flower shops offer a unique window into people’s stories and she began to photograph and write about this floral life in a series of non-fiction books. Later, Sally continued her interest in writing when she founded her fountain pen company, Plooms.co.uk.
Her debut novel, The Keeper of Stories, was a Sunday Times Bestseller and allowed Sally to combine her love of history and writing with her abiding interest in the stories people have to tell. Sally now lives in Dorset. Her eldest daughter, Alex, is studying to be a doctor and her youngest daughter is the author, Libby Page.
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The Keeper of Stories
A feelgood and uplifting book club read you won’t be able to put down!
She can’t recall what started her collection. Maybe it was in a fragment of conversation overheard as she cleaned a sink? Before long (as she dusted a sitting room or defrosted a fridge) she noticed people were telling her their stories. Perhaps they always had done, but now it is different, now the stories are reaching out to her and she gathers them to her…
Cleaner Janice knows that it is in people’s stories that you really get to know them. From recently-widowed Fiona and her son Adam; to opera-singing Geordie; and the awful Mrs ‘YeahYeahYeah’ and her fox terrier, Decius, Janice has a unique insight into the community around her.
When Janice starts cleaning for Mrs B – a shrewd and tricksy woman in her nineties – she finally meets someone who wants to hear her story. But Janice is clear: she is the keeper of stories, she doesn’t have a story to tell. At least, not one she can share.
Mrs B is no fool and knows there is more to Janice than meets the eye. What is she hiding? After all, doesn’t everyone have a story to tell?
| Territory | Publisher/Agent |
|---|---|
| World English | One More Chapter |
| World | Darley Anderson Agency (Tanera Simons) |
| Albania | Bota Shqiptare |
| Brazil (Portuguese) | Bertrand Brasil |
| Bulgaria | IZTOK-ZAPAD |
| Croatia | Stilus |
| Czech Republic | Euromedia |
| Estonia | Eesti Raamat |
| France | L'Archipel |
| Germany | DTV |
| Greece | Psichogios |
| Israel | Modan-Keter |
| Italy | Newton Compton |
| Korea | Dasan Books |
| Latvia | Zvaigzne |
| Lithuania | Alma Littera |
| Poland | Insignis |
| Portugal | Porto Editora |
| Russia | Azbooka-Atticus |
| Serbia | Laguna |
| Slovakia | Tatran |
| Slovenia | DESK |
| Turkey | The Kitap Yayinlari |
| North America | Blackstone Publishing |