The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

Maggie O’Farrell

ISBN 0755334167 (978-075-533416-2)
RRP $45.00 September 2006
Headline Audio 6 CDs

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.

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