by Maggie O'Farrell
Oooo, how frustrating! Yet, how engaging!This tragic story has three narrators and spans almost 80 years. The three voices braid together to tell a story of jealousy, betrayal, and maybe madness. I say "maybe" as I'm left unclear on whether there was madness to begin with, or whether madness was ind...
Apparently, back in the days, trying out your mother's clothes would earn you a one-way ticket to an asylum. I wonder what they'd think about girls trying out their mother's shoes cause I did that more than I can count. I picked the book up and I couldn't put it down. It wasn't amazing. It was ... e...
3.5 starsAttitudes towards mental health are something that I've always found quite interesting-at least in England it's quite rare for people to discuss things like therapy openly. However, it was only when I was watching The Kennedys, that random biopic with Katie Holmes in, that I released that p...
Haunting.I don't have the book in front of me, but one of the blurbs on the back referred to this as a combination of gothic horror and family drama; I would agree.After reading most books I can move on to another with little pause. After reading this, I had to take a break because I was so moved b...
Too catchy to be true. I wish all books had this effect on me: keep me in bed and pause just to refill my cup of whatever and go to the loo.
This was one of the best books I read this year. I know I can be pretty free with the 5 star ratings, but of the 108 books I've read so far this year, this is in the top 5.This is the haunting account of Esme Lennox who was institutionalized at the age of 16, left and forgotten for 60 years.It is t...
I loved this book. It is a story of three related women which slowly unfurls like a flower to reveal the truth within. It is beautifully written on every level - use of language, characterisation, plot - and the secrets which emerge are both shocking and yet totally believable.The author is wonderfu...
This was an amazing book that will haunt you long after you finish reading it!
This is the story of an elderly woman released from an asylum into modern Scotland after spending her entire adult life locked up in an asylum for nothing more heinous than possessing the sort of independence of mind most young women take for granted nowadays. The movement of the plot comes from our...
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox is a beautifully written and haunting story about a woman who has been unjustly incarcerated in a mental hospital at a very young age and has remained there for over sixty years. The hospital is now closing down and the inhabitants have to be rehoused. The story is s...
Log in with Facebook 
