The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
ISBN-10
0151014116
ISBN-13
9780151014118
Series
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Category
Fiction
Pages
245
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Author
Maggie O'Farrell

Description

Iris Lockhart is stunned when she receives news that her great-aunt Esme, a previously unknown woman edited out of her family's history, is being released from Cauldstone Hospital, where she has been confined for more than sixty years, and soon discovers that Esme holds the key to long-hidden family secrets that could change her life forever.

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