Don’t. It’s a feat that first became apparent in The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, in which a woman assumed responsibility for an unheard-of aunt who had spent 60 years in a psychiatric hospital. Her most recent novel, Instructions for a Heatwave, followed a similar pattern: a retired man nips out for a newspaper and never comes back, until his family finally trace him to a convent in rural Ireland.This Must Be The Place pulls off the biggest disappearing act of all, as the woman who vanishes is supposed to be internationally famous. Claudette Wells is, or was, the wife and muse of a temperamental Swedish film-maker. She is famed for her protean screen quality and sharp intelligence, though also for her bizarre, bag-lady appearance and tendency to throw distress flares at photographers. Above all she is notorious for having stormed off set at the height of her career, and never been seen again.Sign up for Bookmarks: discover new books our weekly emailRead moreThe story of Claudette’s withdrawal from the world is told by multiple narrators, none of whom you’d instinctively trust, though the most reliable is Claudette’s second husband, Daniel. A Brooklyn-born linguist, he is well known on the late-night chat circuit: “If you’ve ever listened to a radio programme about neologisms or grammatical shifts or the way teenagers usurp and appropriate terms for their own subversive use, it will probably have been me who was wheeled in to say that change is good, elasticity is to be embraced.”

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