The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

Unabridged

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Publisher's Synopsis

A significant departure for Maggie O'Farrell in terms of maturity and style,?THE VANISHING ACT OF?ESME LENNOX?will be one of the unmissable publishing events of 2006.

Ladies and gentlemen behold.? It is most important to keep yourself very still.? Even breathing can remind them that you are there, so only very short, very shallow breaths.? Just enough to stay alive. Set between the 1930s,and the present, Maggie O'Farrell's new novel is the story of Esme, a woman edited out of her family's history, and of the secrets that come to light when, sixty years later,?she is released from care, and a young woman, Iris, discovers?the great aunt she never knew she had. The?mystery that unfolds is the heartbreaking?tale of two sisters in colonial India and 1930s Edinburgh - of the loneliness that binds them together and the rivalries that drive them apart, and lead one of them to a shocking betrayal?- but above all it is the story of Esme, a fiercely intelligent, ?unconventional young woman, and of the terrible price she is made to pay for her family's unhappiness.? This is vintage Maggie O'Farrell: an impassioned, intense, haunting family drama? - a stunning imagining of a life stolen, and reclaimed.

Book information

ISBN: 9780755334162
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
Imprint: Headline Review
Pub date:
Edition: Unabridged
DEWEY: 823.92
DEWEY edition: 22
Weight: 210g
Height: 142mm
Width: 124mm
Spine width: 24mm