Praise for The Vanished Child

 

 

§ “Stunning…Tells a grim tale of murder and duplicity in stately prose that subtly enhances the psychological horrors….” 

The New York Times  (Notable Book of the Year)

§ “A stunning tale of love, amnesia, child abuse, Victorian sexual repression and murder most foul….The satisfying denouement is a shocker.” 

Publishers Weekly  (starred review)

§ “Greed, suspicion, love, madness, and amnesia: Sarah Smith pulls it all together with a rare talent for telling a complex story in beautifully simple language.” 

The San Francisco Chronicle
 

§ “Smith deftly explores both the actual and the psychological mysteries…. Highly recommended.” 

Library Journal

§ “Deliciously intriguing…an artful literary puzzler featuring the kind of thick period detail and narrative intricacy mastered by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, and by few writers since…. This one belongs on the permanent shelf.” 

The Philadelphia Inquirer