The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Tapa dura

Iris Lockhart is stunned when she receives news that her great-aunt Esme, a previously unknown woman edited out of her family's history, is being released from Cauldstone Hospital, where she has been confined for more than sixty years, and soon discovers that Esme holds the key to long-hidden family secrets that could change her life forever.

Praise for THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX:

"This haunting and extraordinarily engrossing novel--part gothic mystery, part tangled family drama--reminded me why I love reading in the first place: it's because a well-written book has the power to carry us away to a place we've never been but always suspected was there." -- Carolyn Parkhurst, author of THE DOGS OF BABEL

"I found this actually unputdownable, written with charge and energy and a kind of compelling drive, a clarity and a gripping dramatic insidiousness reminiscent of classic writers like Rebecca West and Daphne Du Maurier." --Ali Smith, author of Hotel World and The Accidental

"Prickly, disturbing and delicious, a novel to gulp in a single sitting." -- The Observer

"Like Sarah Waters or Douglas Kennedy [O’Farrell] displays a gift for storytelling that makes her novels almost ridiculously pleasurable to read." ? The London Times

"Beneath the cool Edwardian detail of this elegantly written book lie the horrors of a Gothic novel." -- The Guardian "I would like to think that families only behave this way in books, but unfortunately betrayal, jealousy, and secrets are all too common in real life. It was a terrific book, I will be thinking about it for a long time." -- Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife