by Maggie O'Farrell · Tinder Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780755308446
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«The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox» is Maggie O'Farrell's literary novel in paperback (288 pages, in English).
In 1930s Edinburgh, young Esme Lennox, frank and nonconformist, clashes with her bourgeois surroundings. Decades later, Iris Lockhart discovers by letter that she has a great-aunt in a psychiatric hospital. She has never heard of Esme, and the novel unravels how she could have been erased from her own family history.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction, family dramas, and psychological novels with a Scottish backdrop.
Maggie O'Farrell FRSL is an Irish-British novelist. Her acclaimed first novel, After You'd Gone, won the Betty Trask Award and a later one, The Hand That First Held Mine, the 2010 Costa Novel Award. She has twice been shortlisted since for the Costa Novel Award for Instructions for a Heatwave in 2014 and This Must Be The Place in 2017. Her memoir I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death reached the top of the Sunday Times bestseller list. Her novel Hamnet won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020, the fiction prize at the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards. O'Farrell co-adapted the book for the screen with Chloé Zhao in 2025, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for her work on the film.
