The vanishing act of Esme Lennox
By: by Maggie O'Farrell
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Magna Large Print Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Long Preston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780750527262
Subjects: Sisters; Fiction
Description: In 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. 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?
Notes: Originally published: London: Headline Review, 2006.