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The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
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The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
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It is most important to keep yourself very still. Even breathing can remind them that you are there, so only very short, shallow breaths. Just enough to stay alive. I haven't read anything of Maggie O'Farrell's before - and I must confess that now I'm almost afraid to check out her other novels for fear of being disappointed. This was so good! The publishers (QPD) refered to her on the back as "one of our finest novelists" and I put that down to hype as I read it. I was wrong, very wrong! Her style of writing is superb. I loved the way the reader was drawn into both Kitty (suffering from Alzheimers) and Esme's deepest thoughts, the way the flashbacks to their life in India was superbly interwoven, and then juxtaposed to the contemporary life of Iris, the great-neice living in Edinburgh. Cauldstone might be fictional but there is a cold reality behind the story, and The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox gives a real glimpse at how in the UK - in the 1930s - a woman (any woman) could so easily be labelled 'insane' and committed to an institution on her father or husband's request. Shudder! |
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