Already a **Sunday Times * bestselling author with her first novel,*A Map of the Damage * *confirms Sophia Tobin as a rising star. Stunning historical fiction for fans of Tracy Chevalier.
London, 1941. Livy makes her way through Blitz-torn London to the Mirrormakers’ Club, the only place that makes her feels safe, where she finds herself drawn into the mystery of a missing diamond, and torn between two men with competing claims on her.
London, 1841. Charlotte is helped from the scene of an accident by a man who shows her a building he is working on, and whose kindness unlocks a hope she has long kept buried. But that man is not her husband.
Two women, a century apart, united by one place: the Mirrormakers’ Club. A building which holds echoes of past loves and hates, and hides the darkest of secrets in its foundations.
*Praise for The Vanishing *
‘Undeniably page-turning’ *Mail on Sunday *
'Think Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre , but ten times darker, and you have The Vanishing … as dark and eerie and gothic as the Yorkshire Moors it is set on. One to curl up by the fire with on a windy night’ *Stylist *
‘Entertaining’ **Times __
‘ Vivid, absorbingand** wonderfully gothic**, with shades of Sarah Waters and Emily and Charlotte Brontë’** Kate Riordan**
‘ Brilliantly Brontë-esque. Perfect reading for a stormy night ’ Anna Mazzola
‘A vivid sense of the period … which stays with the reader long after the final page’ **the i __
‘The plotting is skilful, with a network of lies being woven so that no one, characters or readers, can be sure of the truth’ _Daily Express_
‘Atmosphere aplenty and some real surprises’ *Daily Mail _
‘Echoes _Wuthering Heights* with its setting and sense of intrigue’ _Red _
‘An atmospheric tale of betrayal and revenge’ **woman &home __
‘A thrilling, atmospheric page-turner’ **Metro * *