The Vanishing Act Of Esme Lennox

Author: Maggie O'Farrell

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  • : 9780755308446
  • : Headline Publishing Group
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  • : June 2006
  • : 197mm X 127mm X 23mm
  • : United Kingdom
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Description

THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX is classic Maggie O'Farrell: a stunning imagining of a life stolen, and reclaimed. Edinburgh in the 1930s. The Lennox family is having trouble with its youngest daughter. Esme is outspoken, unconventional, and repeatedly embarrasses them in polite society. Something will have to be done. Years later, a young woman named Iris Lockhart receives a letter informing her that she has a great-aunt in a psychiatric unit who is about to be released. Iris has never heard of Esme Lennox and the one person who should know more, her grandmother Kitty, seems unable to answer Iris's questions. What could Esme have done to warrant a lifetime in an institution? And how is it possible for a person to be so completely erased from a family's history?

Promotion info

An impassioned, intense, haunting family drama from the author of AFTER YOU'D GONE and INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE

Awards

Winner of Good Housekeeping Book Awards: Best Book of the Year 2007.

Reviews

'Actually unputdownable, written with charge and energy and a kind of compelling drive, a clarity and a gripping dramatic insidiousness reminiscent of classic Daphne du Maurier' -- Ali Smith 'O'Farrell's subtlety and delicate touch have never been so finely demonstrated' -- Independent on Sunday 'Mesmerisingly good' -- Daily Mail 'O'Farrell's story-telling skills ensure that this novel is compulsively readable, and delivers strong emotional punch' -- Telegraph

Author description

Maggie O'Farrell was born in Northern Ireland in 1972, and grew up in Wales and Scotland. She now lives in London. Her debut novel, AFTER YOU'D GONE, was published to international acclaim, and won a Betty Trask Award.