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The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
by Maggie O'Farrell
📚Literary fiction~245 pages
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A young woman in present-day Edinburgh learns she has a great-aunt she never knew existed, held for decades in a psychiatric institution now closing its doors. The novel moves between her bewildered present, the closed and constrained world of a 1930s girlhood, and the fragmentary memories of a woman with dementia whose account cannot quite be trusted. What emerges is a story about how a family disposes of an inconvenient daughter and how silence hardens into fact. Spare, tense and quietly furious, it builds its pressure through gaps and withheld information rather than spectacle.
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