by Maggie O'Farrell · Artemis & Co · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789047200048
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«Het verdwenen leven van Esme Lennox» is the literary novel by Maggie O'Farrell, published by Artemis & Co in paperback (222 pages, in Dutch).
Iris Lockhart receives a letter: her great-aunt, whom she has never heard mentioned, is being released from the psychiatric hospital where she has spent almost her entire life. She is Esme Lennox, sister of her grandmother Kitty, who is lost in her memories and cannot explain anything. The plot brings to light the relationship between the two sisters and the price one of them paid for the family.
Originally published as The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox; this Dutch edition, translated by Noor Koch, is from 2007.
A read for book clubs and for those seeking literary and historical fiction novels about family secrets and memory.
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.
