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The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

By: Maggie O'Farrell
Narrated by: Daniela Nardini
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From the Costa Award winning, best-selling author of This Must Be the Place and I Am, I Am, I Am, comes an intense, breathtakingly accomplished story of a woman's life stolen and reclaimed.

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?

©2006 Maggie O'Farrell (P)2006 Maggie O'Farrell Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological

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"O'Farrell's imaginative territory is one you return to with delight." (The Times)
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A compelling if not heart wrenching family story of misunderstanding,jealousy and love. Well narrated extremely enjoyable

Excellent story

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loved how the story slowly unfolded and moved from one character or narrator to another and from one era to another ever few pages, back and forth

complex unweaving of story

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When this book ended I thought there was some kind of mistake, so I listened to the last part again....how unsatisfactory. It's like the author just ran out of ideas and quit! I was waiting for it to get started.

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