reviews
- 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
