From the bestselling,critically acclaimed author of HAMNET and I AM,I AM,I AM,comes an intense,breathtakingly accomplished story of a woman's life stolen,and reclaimed.'Unputdownable'Ali SmithEdinburgh 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 and the one person who should know more,her grandmother Kitty,seems unable to answer Iris's questions.What could Esme have done to warrant a lifetime in an institutionAnd how is it possible for a person to be so completely erased from a family'shistory
Publisher: Headline Publishing GroupISBN: 9780755308446Number of pages: 288Weight: 271 gDimensions: 197 x 130 x 22 mm
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Actually unputdownable,written with charge and energy and a kind of compelling drive,a clarity and a gripping dramatic insidiousness reminiscent of classic Daphne du MaurierO'Farrell's subtlety and delicate touch have never been so finely demonstratedMesmerisingly goodO'Farrell's story-telling skills ensure that this novel is compulsively readable,and delivers strong emotional punch
Maggie O'Farrell
Waterstones has been a keen early advocate of Maggie O'Farrell since we identified her as a talent to watch in our 25 Authors of the Future list back in 2007 aftersupporting her brilliant debutAfter You'd Gone. Since then she's continued to impress with novels including:Instructions for a Heatwave,The Hand That First Held Mine(for which she won the Costa Book Award) and This Must Be the Place.
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