by Maggie O'Farrell · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782298017960
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«L'étrange disparition d'Esme Lennox» is the historical novel by Maggie O'Farrell, published by France Loisirs in paperback (391 pages, in French).
Between 1930s India and contemporary Scotland, Esme Lennox lives locked in Cauldstone asylum and erased from family memory. When the asylum closes, her great-niece Iris, who knew nothing of her existence, becomes her only guide. The reunion reveals the weight of social conventions and the dramas of a stolen life.
The original English title is The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, published in 2006; this French edition is the translation of that work.
For book clubs and for readers of historical and literary fiction focused on family and secrets.
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.
