The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Maggie O´farrell
From the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of HAMNET and I AM, I AM, I AM, comes an intense, breathtakingly accomplished story of a woman's life stolen, and reclaimed.
'Unputdownable' Ali Smith
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?
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Reviews for The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
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
The novel is brilliant in every way...Maggie O'Farrell has written a taut, fragile mystery of relationships and deception
Literary Review