‘The plot twists with admirable zest… Entertaining’  (The Times)

‘Layer upon layer of increasingly fevered intrigue, and just when you think you can guess where this story is going, it takes a turn for the unexpected… undeniably page-turning’ (Mail on Sunday)

‘Atmosphere aplenty and some real surprises’  (Daily Mail)

‘Tobin writes with brio and the narrative carries the reader briskly along. 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)

'There is a Jane Eyre feel to The Vanishing by Sophia Tobin' (Good Housekeeping)

‘A thrilling atmospheric page-turner in which madness threatens to unhinge the protagonists’  (Metro)

‘Think Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre, but 10 times darker, and you have The Vanishing…One to curl up by the fire with on a windy night’ (Stylist)

‘Tobin, an antiques specialist-turned-novelist, has created a vivid sense of the period she is writing about, which stays with the reader long after the final page’  (the i)

‘An atmospheric historical novel that echoes Wuthering Heights with its Yorkshire Moors setting and sense of intrigue' (RED)

'The Vanishing is a pitch perfect evocation of a classic nineteenth century Gothic novel which confirms Sophia Tobin as a writer of the highest calibre' (William Ryan, author of The Constant Soldier)