In the middle of tending to the everyday business at her vintage-clothing shop and sidestepping her married boyfriend's attempts at commitment, Iris Lockhart receives a stunning phone call: Her great-aunt Esme, whom she never knew existed, is being released from Cauldstone Hospital--where she has been locked away for more than sixty-one years. ...
Told in a series of vignettes, this story of young Alice Raikes describes her breakdown and suicide attempt after a mysterious incident in an Edinburgh train station rest room. As Alice lies in a coma, her life is picked apart until the trauma that so unsettled her become clear.
Lily and Marcus become roommates and then lovers, living in Marcus's posh loft--a place that seems haunted with the absence of Marcus's ex-roommate Sinead, a woman Marcus refuses to discuss. Lily knows she needs to know the truth--and when she finds out, quite unexpectedly, what really happened between Marcus and Sinead, it changes everything.
Stella has fled London to confront the childhood secret which has marred her life and twinned her destiny with her sister's. A set of tragic circumstances brings Jake from Hong Kong to Britain, where he embarks upon a quest for the father he never knew. When Jake and Stella meet, both their lives are changed forever.
Lily and Marcus become roommates and then lovers, living in Marcus's posh loft--a place that seems haunted with the absence of Marcus's ex-roommate Sinead, a woman Marcus refuses to discuss. Lily knows she needs to know the truth--and when she finds out, quite unexpectedly, what really happened between Marcus and Sinead, it changes everything.
'It is stripped off - the paper - in great patches ...The colour is repellent ...In the places where it isn't faded and where the sun is just so - I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about ...' Based on the author's own experiences, 'The Yellow Wallpaper' is the chilling tale of a woman driven to the brink ...
A significant departure for Maggie O'Farrell in terms of maturity and style, THE VANISHING ACT OF ESME LENNOX" "will be one of the unmissable publishing events of 2006. Set between the 1930s,and the present, Maggie O'Farrell's new novel is the story of Esme, a woman edited out of her family's history, and of the secrets that come to light when, ...
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