A Kind of Vanishing
ISBN: 9780954930950
Published: Myriad Editions – 21st June 2007
“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.”
The Guardian
“This emotionally charged thriller grips from the first paragraph, and a nail-biting level of suspense is maintained throughout. A great second novel.”
She
“I read A Kind of Vanishing twice. Reading it a second time revealed just how skilfully the author lays the foundations in the earlier chapters for what is to come. Each layer of the plot is carefully interwoven with the thoughts, wishes and desires of the main characters. Years pass culminating in the explosion of a shocking truth.
“If you enjoy a good thriller with more twists and turns than a corkscrew, I recommend it.”
The Parkinson (Magazine for The Parkinson’s Disease Society)
“A sensitively written story, evocatively described, this is also an unusual thriller in that it easily bears a second reading.”
The Argus
“Such is the vividness of the descriptions of the location in this well structured and well written novel that I want to get the next train down…just when one thinks one can guess where it is leading, it switches, and the conclusion is a tense and gripping one. On the edge of my seat? No way – I was cowering under it.”
Amy Myers www.shotsmag.co.uk
“Complex, disturbing and surprising…the sort of book where you simply have to completely rethink what you thought was going to happen – before sleeping with the lights on.”
Candis Magazine
Lesley Thomson’s engaging writing style skilfully explores the obsession and the sense of guilt, hope and despair, trust and mistrust that – from that moment -will fill the lives of all the people who once knew the girl who disappeared. A masterful exploration of human feelings that is paired with an equally masterful description of the settings that form the background to this gripping story.
Full of unexpected twists, this is a crime story that will leave you wondering until the end whether a crime has, in fact, been committed at all.”
Blog After Blog http://www.bookafterbook.blogspot.com/
“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.
And whilst this is more of a domestic drama than a traditional crime novel, the author does throw in a couple of cracking twists and manages to keep you guessing right till the end. I was very pleasantly surprised.”
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