Welcome to my website.
Here you can find out more about my writing.
I would love to know what you think after reading my latest novel: A Kind of Vanishing. Oirginally classed as a crime novel it has been reissued in general fiction. Do you read crime-fiction. Do you call a book with a crime in it, crime fiction?
If you belong to a book group and have read A Kind of Vanishing: do invite me along to discuss it with me and to tell me your thoughts. I am inspired by readers’ own experience of the story.
First Edition of A Kind of Vanishing
ISBN: 9780954930950
Published: 21st June 2007
A child disappears. A woman grows up harbouring a terrible secret. Her daughter wants to know the truth.
It is the summer of 1968, the day Senator Robert Kennedy is shot. Two nine-year-old girls are playing hide and seek in the ruins of a deserted village. Alice has discovered a secret…
“Lesley Thomson is a class above and A Kind of Vanishing is a novel to treasure.” Ian Rankin
Winner of People’s Book Prize for Fiction 2010
Second Edition with Afterword by author published March 2011 TO ORDER
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