The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Author of Hamnet

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Publisher Description

The intense and breathtakingly accomplished novel from the bestselling author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT

*440,000 copies sold"

'Seductive in style, prickly, disturbing and delicious' Olivia Laing
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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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'Actually unputdownable' Ali Smith

'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph

'O'Farrell's subtlety and delicate touch have never been so finely demonstrated' Independent on Sunday

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2009
12 November
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
145
Pages
PUBLISHER
Headline
SELLER
Hachette Australia Pty Ltd
SIZE
829.6
KB
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