The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Book description
From the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of HAMNET and I AM, I AM, I AM, comes an intense, breathtakingly accomplished story of a woman's life stolen, and reclaimed.
'Unputdownable' Ali Smith
Edinburgh in the 1930s. The Lennox family is having trouble with its youngest daughter. Esme is outspoken, unconventional, and…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
From the outset, I was hooked by the book blurb: the story of someone completely erased from a family’s history.
As someone who loves genealogy research, I know from experience that whole life stories can be wiped out or rewritten in a family. In the book, Esme reappears after a lifetime in an institution, arriving in the life of her great niece, who was unaware she existed.
I loved the interwoven timescales as the author seamlessly takes us from the 1930s to the modern day. It is a beautifully written story of tangled lives and huge emotional trauma. A story…
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