The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

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The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Author of Hamnet

By 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,... Read More

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The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

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The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

The Sunday Times bestselling novel from the author of HAMNET and THE MARRIAGE PORTRAIT - an impassioned, intense, haunting family drama

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

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

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781035430055

Publisher: Headline Publishing Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 March 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Tinder Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 260g

Pages: 288

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About the Author

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.