The Temple House Vanishing
Book Feature - The Temple House Vanishing by Rachel Donohue
HBL Note: Calling all fans of Elisabeth Thomas’s Catherine House or Kate Elizabeth Russell’s My Dark Vanessa, I have a debut novelist you’ll love! Let me introduce you to Rachel Donohue and her novel, The Temple House Vanishing, about a young Catholic school girl and a teacher who go missing. It is told with alternating viewpoints between Louisa, the school girl, and the reporter covering the story. Rachel said she wanted to “capture the intensity of teenage infatuation, vulnerability and isolation” with THE TEMPLE HOUSE VANISHING, and I think she did just that. Scroll down to read more.
Book Feature - The Temple House Vanishing by Rachel Donohue
Book Feature - The Temple House Vanishing by Rachel Donohue
From the publisher:
Perched high atop a seaside cliff in Ireland, a lonely Victorian mansion is home to Temple House School. And at Temple House, nothing is ever as it seems.
Louisa is the new, brilliant scholarship student. Finding most of the other students at the all-girls Catholic boarding school as icy and unfamiliar as the drafty mansion, she forms a fierce bond with the intense and compelling Victoria, an outlier and student provocateur.
Their close bond is soon unsettled by the young, charismatic art teacher, Mr. Lavelle—igniting tension and obsession in the cloistered world of the school. Then one day, Louisa and Mr. Lavelle disappear.
There is no trace of either one. It’s the unsolved mystery that captivates the whole country. Year after year, the media revisit it, and the conspiracy theories persist. Now, on the twenty-fifth anniversary, a journalist—a woman who grew up on the same street as Louisa—delves into the past to write a series of articles and uncover the truth. She finds stories of jealousy and revenge, power and class. But will she find Louisa and Mr. Lavelle, too?
Because remember—at Temple House, nothing is ever as it seems.
Book Feature - The Temple House Vanishing by Rachel Donohue
