Blackwell UK
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
ISBN: 9780755308446
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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An impassioned, intense, haunting family drama - a stunning imagining of a life stolen, and reclaimed More
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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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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 ...
