The Temple House Vanishing

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An Irish Bestseller Finalist for the Irish Book Awards' Newcomer of the Yea Perched high atop a seaside cliff in Ireland, a lonely Victorian mansion is home to Temple House School. 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 ...