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ISBN: 9781876756680
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180 x 110 mm
406 pp
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A Kind of Vanishing
Lesley Thomson

When a child disappears, who takes the blame?

A child disappears.
A woman grows up harbouring a terrible secret.
Her daughter wants to know the truth.

It's the summer of 1968, the day Senator Robert Kennedy is shot. Two 9-year-old girls, Eleanor Ramsay and Alice Howland, are playing hide and seek in the ruins of The Mills, a deserted village on the Sussex coast. When it is Eleanor's turn to hide, Alice disappears.

This is a spellbinding mystery of obsession and guilt. It is also the poignant story of what happens to those who are left behind when a child vanishes without trace.

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Awards
2009 The People’s Book Prize for Fiction (US)
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Lesley Thomson is a class above, and A Kind of Vanishing is a novel to treasure.
Ian Rankin
A thoughtful, well-observed story about families and relationships and what happens to both when a tragedy occurs. It reminded me of Kate Atkinson. Thomson is particularly good at capturing the minutiae of childhood as well as the secrets, the lies, the make believe, the jealousies and spitefulness, the confusion and wonder of being nine years old.
Scott Pack

Thomson skilfully evokes the era and the slow-moving quality of childhood summers, suggesting the menace lurking just beyond the vision of her young protagonists. A study of memory and guilt with several twists.

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