Esme was a woman edited out of her family's history, and when, sixty years later, she is released from care, 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 ...
| ISBN | 0755308441 | | Pages | 288 | | ISBN13 | 9780755308446
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 280 | | Publisher | Headline Publishing Group | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Headline Review | | Previous ISBN | 9780755334803 | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Publication date | 13 Jan 2007 | | Width (mm) | 131 | | DEWEY | 823.914 | | Spine width (mm) | 23 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | General |
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'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
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