The Island of Longing

Anne Griffin's novel "The Vanishing" is a beautiful, emotional story about love, loss, family, and hope. It follows Rosie, who believes her daughter Saoirse will return home after vanishing eight years ago. The novel explores the fragility of the human condition and what holds us together when we break.

Format: Hardback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 04 May 2023
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Would you ever give up on finding your child if they vanished without a trace?

Number One Irish bestselling author of "When All is Said" Anne Griffin returns with this beautiful, emotional novel about love, loss, family, and hope that will break your heart but also put it back together again.

The Irish bestseller that everyone is raving about:

Stunning. . . I loved it. LIZ NUGENT

Elegant and moving. JOHN BOYNE

A storyteller of rare gifts. JOSEPH O CONNOR

A beautiful, emotive mystery. CHRIS WHITAKER

Gently heartbreaking, but also hopeful and uplifting. An insight into the fragility of the human condition and what holds us together when we break.

IRISH TIMES

One unremarkable afternoon, Rosie watched her daughter Saoirse cycle into town, expecting to hear the slam of the door when she returned a few hours later.

But the slam never came.

Eight years on, Rosie is the only person who believes that her child might one day return home.

Will this belief come at the cost of everything she has left?

Weight: 478g
Dimension: 147 x 384 x 37 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529372021