Lead Review

  • Book: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
  • Location: Edinburgh, India
  • Author: Maggie O'Farrell

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This book is about a long life and has the dream-like intensity of imagination and the gift of conveying pain, fear and sometimes rapture for which 0’Farrell is known….I will not reveal the outcome. Beneath the cool Edwardian detail of this elegantly written book lie the horrors of a Gothic novel. Scottish propriety conceals rape and murder, torture, hypocrisy and violent sex. The comfort is that the lunacy laws are now reformed and the small, bewildered orphans of the raj are no more. (Jane Gardam, The Guardian)

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