The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Author of Hamnet
$24.53
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
29 July 2025
Summary
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 receiv…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035430055 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035430053 |
| Author: | Maggie O'Farrell |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Tinder Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 29 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 260g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 28mm |
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The novel is brilliant in every way…Maggie O’Farrell has written a taut, fragile mystery of relationships and deception * Literary Review *
About The Author
Maggie O'Farrell
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.
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