Intelligent, insightful and intriguing
The Temple House Vanishing is a beautifully atmospheric and involving novel, written in a lyrical literary style with a mysteriously compelling story.
Louisa and her art teacher disappeared one night many years ago. In a case that engaged the nation, neither of them were ever found.
From the perspectives of Louisa and a journalist writing a case study 25 years later, we learn about Temple House school, the social and class divide of the girls and the slow burn of an obsessive relationship.
This is the sort of story I fall into, the past haunting the present in this case almost literally. The truth about what happened back then is revealed in slow, engrossing detail.
An incredible debut by Donohue. A gothic literary mystery I highly recommend. I cannot wait to read her future novels.
Louisa and her art teacher disappeared one night many years ago. In a case that engaged the nation, neither of them were ever found.
From the perspectives of Louisa and a journalist writing a case study 25 years later, we learn about Temple House school, the social and class divide of the girls and the slow burn of an obsessive relationship.
This is the sort of story I fall into, the past haunting the present in this case almost literally. The truth about what happened back then is revealed in slow, engrossing detail.
An incredible debut by Donohue. A gothic literary mystery I highly recommend. I cannot wait to read her future novels.