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Maggie O'Farrell - Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Author of Hamnet

Av Maggie O'Farrell

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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_____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?_____'Actually unputdownable' Ali Smith'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph'O'Farrell's subtlety and delicate touch have never been so finely demonstrated' Independent on Sunday_____⭐ What readers are saying; ⭐ 'A gripping page turner and easily the best book i've read this year' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'Truly stunning... the way she writes is just exquisite' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'I wanted it to go on and on' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-03-27
  • Mått: 197 x 26 x 128 mm
  • Vikt: 256 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 288
  • Förlag: Headline Publishing Group
  • ISBN: 9781035430055
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Maggie O'Farrell is the author of HAMNET, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020, and the memoir I AM, I AM, I AM, both Sunday Times no. 1 bestsellers. Her novels include AFTER YOU'D GONE, MY LOVER'S LOVER, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX, THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, which won the 2010 Costa Novel Award, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT, which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize. She is also the author of three books for children, WHERE SNOW ANGELS GO, THE BOY WHO LOST HIS SPARK and WHEN THE STAMMER CAME TO STAY. She lives in Edinburgh.

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The novel is brilliant in every way...Maggie O'Farrell has written a taut, fragile mystery of relationships and deception

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