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    <![CDATA[The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox]]>
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    <![CDATA[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.<br/><br/>Iris’s grandmother Kitty always claimed to be an only child. But Esme’s papers prove she is Kitty’s sister, and Iris can see the shadow of her dead father in Esme’s face. <br/><br/>Esme has been labeled harmless—sane enough to coexist with the rest of the world. But she's still basically a stranger, a family member never mentioned by the family, and one who is sure to bring life-altering secrets with her when she leaves the ward. If Iris takes her in, what dangerous truths might she inherit?<br/><br/>A gothic, intricate tale of family secrets, lost lives, and the freedom brought by truth, <em>The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox</em> will haunt you long past its final page.]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Maggie O'Farrell]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I completely fell in love with this book in the one sitting it took me to read it (because I just couldn't put it down). <br/><br/>This is the story 2 young girls, Kitty and Esme, growing up in the 20's and 30's in first colonial India and then in Edinbugh when their parents move back home. They a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24967834">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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