The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Headline Publishing Group
Published:26th Feb '13
Should be back in stock very soon
An impassioned, intense, haunting family drama from the author of AFTER YOU'D GONE and INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE
An impassioned, intense, haunting family drama from the author of HAMNET and I AM, I AM, I AM
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?
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 *
- Winner of Good Housekeeping Book Awards: Best Book of the Year 2007
ISBN: 9780755308446
Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 22mm
Weight: 271g
288 pages