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The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
ISBN 0755308433 (978-075-530843-9)
RRP $49.95 September 2006
Headline Hardback Demy (216x138mm)
A significant departure for Maggie O’Farrell in terms of maturity and style, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox will be one of the unmissable publishing events of 2006. Ladies and gentlemen behold. It is most important to keep yourself very still. Even breathing can remind them that you are there, so only very short, very shallow breaths. Just enough to stay alive. Set between the 1930s, and the present, Maggie O’Farrell’s new novel is the story of Esme, a woman edited out of her family’s history, and of the secrets that come to light when, sixty years later, she is released from care, and 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.
Other Editions
ISBN 0755332229 Headline Paperback $32.95 September 2006
ISBN 0755334167 Headline Audio A $45.00 September 2006
Author Info
Maggie O’Farrell was born in Northern Ireland in 1972, and grew up in Wales and Scotland. She now lives in Edinburgh with her family. Her debut novel, After You’d Gone, was published to international acclaim, and … [more]
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