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Book SynopsisAlready a Sunday Times bestselling author, The Vanishing deserves to be the break-out book for Sophia Tobin. Stunning, twisting historical fiction for all fans of The Miniaturist, The Essex Serpent and Burial Rites.
Trade Review‘The
plot twists with admirable zest…
Entertaining’ * The Times *
‘Layer upon layer of
increasingly fevered intrigue, and just when you think you can guess where this story is going, it takes a turn for the unexpected…
undeniably page-turning’ * Mail on Sunday *
‘
Atmosphere aplenty and some real surprises’ * Daily Mail *
‘Tobin writes with brio and the
narrative carries the reader briskly along. The
plotting is skilful, with a network of lies being woven so that no one, characters or readers, can be sure of the truth’ * Daily Express *
‘
Think Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre, but 10 times darker, and you have
The Vanishing…One to
curl up by the fire with on a windy night’ * Stylist *
‘A
thrilling atmospheric page-turner in which madness threatens to unhinge the protagonists’ * Metro *
'There is a
Jane Eyre feel to
The Vanishing by Sophia Tobin' * Good Housekeeping *
‘Tobin, an antiques specialist-turned-novelist, has created
a vivid sense of the period she is writing about, which
stays with the reader long after the final page’ * the i *
‘An atmospheric historical novel that
echoes Wuthering Heights with its Yorkshire Moors setting and sense of intrigue' * RED *
'
The Vanishing is a
pitch perfect evocation of a classic nineteenth century Gothic novel which c
onfirms Sophia Tobin as a writer of the highest calibre' -- William Ryan, author of The Constant Soldier
'I found it so
compelling that I couldn’t wait to go back to it and really wanted to read it
curled up on the sofa by a roaring fire on a dark and stormy night. Definitely
reminiscent of the Brontës – a cross between Jane Eyre and
Wuthering Heights’ -- Susan Elliot Wright
‘It compels the reader with the poignancy and drama so loved in the novels of
Wilkie Collins. The
beauty of the writing sings throughout. A
splendid and accomplished literary page turner’ -- Kate Mayfield
