The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

From the Costa Award winning, bestselling author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and
I AM, I AM, I AM, comes an intense, breathtakingly accomplished story of a
woman's life stolen, and reclaimed.

'Unputdownable' Ali Smith

Edinburgh in the 1930s. The Lennox family is having trouble with its youngest
daughter. Esme is outspoken, unconventional, and repeatedly embarrasses them
in polite society. Something will have to be done.

Years later, a young woman named Iris Lockhart receives a letter informing her
that she has a great-aunt in a psychiatric unit who is about to be released.

Iris has never heard of Esme Lennox and the one person who should know more,
her grandmother Kitty, seems unable to answer Iris's questions. What could
Esme have done to warrant a lifetime in an institution? And how is it possible
for a person to be so completely erased from a family's history?