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**United Kingdom (general thread)

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1avaland
maj 2, 2011, 10:32 am

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2Trifolia
jul 29, 2011, 4:19 pm

UK: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell - 4 stars

This is the amazing, enraging, heartbreaking story of three women: Esme who has been placed in an asylum over 60 years ago when she was 16, her sister Kit who has Alzheimer and her granddaughter Iris, a young woman. It's only when the asylum closes that Iris finds out about her lost family-member. Little by little, through intertwining dialogues, we find out what's really happened to Esme.
The parallels and differences between the characters whose lives evolve in a different time-frame, are striking and thought-provoking.
I sometimes like to place the characters from different books with similar themes together and compare them. In this case, I joined the main characters of The Awakening by Kate Chopin and The Yellow Wall-paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman which I both read last year. Although they are not similar, if you like one of these, you'll probably like the other ones too. Highly recommended if you like a short, but thoughtful read with a serious theme.

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