This beautifully haunting story The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell is very well written in an unusual "unstructured" style. Iris learns she has an elderly great-aunt, Esme, being released from an asylum after 60 years. Is Esme really insane? Why did her family put her there in the 1930s? The reader follows Esme's life as well as Iris's life and see how they will eventually interact. Esme was a high-spirited teenager who did not "conform" to her family's idea of how a young woman should behave - but why was she "punished" in this dreadful way? 5/5
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