From the Costa Award winning, bestselling author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and I AM, I AM, I AM, comes an intense, breathtakingly accomplished story of a woman's life stolen, and reclaimed.
What could Esme have done to warrant a lifetime in an institution? And how is it possible for a person to be so completely erased from a family's history?.
Iris has never heard of Esme Lennox and the one person who should know more, her grandmother Kitty, seems unable to answer Iris's questions.
Years later, a young woman named Iris Lockhart receives a letter informing her that she has a great-aunt in a psychiatric unit who is about to be released.
Something will have to be done.
Esme is outspoken, unconventional, and repeatedly embarrasses them in polite society.
The Lennox family is having trouble with its youngest daughter. '
Unputdownable'
Ali Smith Edinburgh in the 1930s.
From the Costa Award winning, bestselling author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and I AM, I AM, I AM, comes an intense, breathtakingly accomplished story of a woman's life stolen, and reclaimed
