The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Hardcover

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

MAGGIE O’FARRELL is the author of three previous novels, including the beloved After You’d Gone. Born in Northern Ireland, O’Farrell grew up in Wales and Scotland. She lives in Edinburgh.