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Iris Lockhart discovers a great-aunt she had no knowledge of when she receives a stunning phone call announces that this Esme is being released from Cauldstone Hospital, where she has spent the last sixty years. Basically a stranger, a family member never mentioned by the family, and one who is sure to bring life-altering secrets with her when she leaves the ward. If Iris takes her in, what dangerous truths might she inherit . . . ?
A stunning imagining of a life stolen and reclaimed, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox offers an intricate tale that explores the seedy past of Victorian asylums, the oppression of family secrets, and the way truth can change everything.
“Haunting. Maggie O’Farrell is a feminist avenging angel who wields the modern Gothic like a gleaming sword.” -- The Boston Globe