The Vanishing Act Of Esme Lennox - Softcover

O'Farrell, Maggie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1443420107 ISBN 13: 9781443420105

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2013

Synopsis

Esme Lennox is a dreamy, bookish young woman, the kind of girl who stares and listens and won’t flirt with boys. And then, in the space of a moment, she disappears. Years later, a stunning phone call breaks the silence at Iris Lockhart’s vintage shop: her great-aunt Esme, whom she never knew existed, is being released from Cauldstone Hospital after sixty-one years. Iris’s grandmother Kitty always claimed to be an only child, but Esme’s papers prove she is Kitty’s sister, and Iris can see the shadow of her dead father in her face. Still, she’s basically a stranger, a family member never mentioned by the family, sure to bring life-altering secrets when she leaves the ward. If Iris takes her in, what dangerous truths might she inherit?

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About the Author

MAGGIE O’FARRELL was born in Northern Ireland and grew up in Wales and Scotland. She is the author of six novels, including After You’d Gone (winner of the Betty Trask Award), The Distance Between Us (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox and The Hand That First Held Mine (winner of the Costa Novel Award). She lives in Edinburgh.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1443420107
• ISBN 13: 9781443420105
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288