Comments on: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Maggie O’Farrell https://readingtheend.com/2009/04/05/the-vanishing-act-of-esme-lennox-maggie-ofarrell/ before I read the middle Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:29:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Saskia https://readingtheend.com/2009/04/05/the-vanishing-act-of-esme-lennox-maggie-ofarrell/#comment-13111 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:29:29 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=610#comment-13111 Thank you! I’ll have a look at her work.

]]> By: jennysbooks https://readingtheend.com/2009/04/05/the-vanishing-act-of-esme-lennox-maggie-ofarrell/#comment-13110 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:20:53 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=610#comment-13110 If you like mysteries, have you ever read anything by Elizabeth Peters? She writes a really fun series of mysteries set in Egypt at the end of the 19th century. The first one’s Crocodile on the Sandbank – love them!

]]> By: Saskia https://readingtheend.com/2009/04/05/the-vanishing-act-of-esme-lennox-maggie-ofarrell/#comment-13109 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:00:21 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=610#comment-13109 Hello Jenny,
That’s alright I can also connect the book to a movie, if I can’t find anything else. Thank you for your suggestion though. Other books I like? I really enjoyed Agatha Christie for a while, and I’m reading the ‘Memory Keepers Daughter’ by Kim Edwards at the moment, which I have liked so far. One other book I loved is the ‘Book Thief’ by Markus Zusak.
Saskia

]]> By: jennysbooks https://readingtheend.com/2009/04/05/the-vanishing-act-of-esme-lennox-maggie-ofarrell/#comment-13108 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:02:00 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=610#comment-13108 Saskia, I know Maggie O’Farrell has written several other books. Apart from that, I just wish I knew of more books that deal with this theme. Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith does deal a little bit with madhouses, though in an earlier era – Victorians. What other books do you like?

]]> By: Saskia https://readingtheend.com/2009/04/05/the-vanishing-act-of-esme-lennox-maggie-ofarrell/#comment-13107 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:53:15 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=610#comment-13107 Hey
I really loved this book, in fact im studying it for year 12 English. Im wondering if you know of any other books which are connected to ‘The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox’, in any way?
Thank you very much,
Saskia

]]> By: jennysbooks https://readingtheend.com/2009/04/05/the-vanishing-act-of-esme-lennox-maggie-ofarrell/#comment-13106 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:45:51 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=610#comment-13106 Me too. It makes me want to read more books that deal with this issue – not nonfiction, I think I’d find it too upsetting and immediate right now, but I’d like to read more fiction like this.

Gotta love a book that makes you say “I want more exactly like this!”

]]> By: Nymeth https://readingtheend.com/2009/04/05/the-vanishing-act-of-esme-lennox-maggie-ofarrell/#comment-13105 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:49:59 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=610#comment-13105 *adds to wishlist* I will read it.

“She finds records of women and girls who were put in mental institutions by their families for things like not wanting to have their hair cut, taking long walks, refusing marriage.”

Gah. This kind of stuff upsets me so much.

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