The Vanishing of Margaret Small: An uplifting and page-turning mystery

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The Vanishing of Margaret Small: An uplifting and page-turning mystery

The Vanishing of Margaret Small: An uplifting and page-turning mystery

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Shugar, Dana R. (1995). Separatism and Women's Community. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. p.27. ISBN 978-0-8032-4244-9.

Margaret tells her story over two timelines. She is now in her 70s and living in a flat and supervised by her support worker, Wayne. Wayne is a lovely, caring person, fully invested in enabling Margaret to live her best possible life. We need more Waynes in this world. DISCLOSURE: Thank you to Bonnier Audio UK for an audio ARC of The Vanishing of Margaret Small, written by Neil Alexander and narrated by Annie Aldington, for review. All opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own personal opinions. I have known Marga since 2009 when I came to be interviewed for the job I have now. Marga and Alex took the group of interviewees out to lunch at Staff House. I remember us all sitting down in a slightly awkward silence and then Marga arrived at the table and promptly dropped her wallet into tomato sauce. There was some laughter (Marga was the first one to break out in laughter) and we had a pretty companionable lunch afterward. It probably helped more than I realised at the time tobreak the ice and took away some of the stress of the day. During Marga’s appointment process, she impressed everybody during her presentation with her research topic, the history of exploration, but most of all with her language ability. Latin, ancient Greek, Spanish, Italian, French and bits of German amongst them. Whenever we met, she usually greeted me with a friendly ‘Wie gehts?’. These two words and the tone in which she asked expressed Marga’s whole personality: genuine, warm and interested. This is how I experienced her as a colleague, without any sense of attitude or entitlement, totally reliable and always willing to help and do her part in the School’s routine work and events. Yet she also made it her duty to ensure that we were also able to bond together outside of work. Many of the cohort had come from different institutions and Margaret recognised how difficult it may be for a lot of students given that in-person experiences remained limited. So, Margaret tookit upon herself to organise games evening so that we could get to know each other better.I was surprised to find out "The Vanishing of Margaret Small" is this author's debut novel. The author's note at the end, gives brief detail of what brought this amazing story to life. I do hope this book finds its way in front of a large audience of readers and listeners for the well-written and meaningful story it is. I highly recommend it to all! A wonderful book that everyone should read. And please don't forget to read the author's note at the end. It is enlightening. I loved listening to the audio voice of Margaret, the older woman telling us about life for her through decades of change and learning, both for herself and much more widely. As we try to unravel her mystery.

Alexander, who has had poems published in Magma , The Interpreter’s House and Southbank Poetry , said: “ The Vanishing of Margaret Small has been 15 years in the making, so I am delighted it has finally found a home with Jane and the wonderful team at Embla Books.

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Present-day Margaret is a creature of habit and I love the simplistic life she lives. You have to admire the life she has built for herself, considering her institutional life. When the letters and gifts start appearing I immediately want to know who it is. This level of mystery grabbed me straight away and kept me listening. I had a few theories running through my mind and after one or two surprises we finally learn who the mystery sender is. I was pleasantly surprised and felt that this gave the story a lovely ending worthy of Margaret. I've read similar books before (Grace Henderson Says it Loud) but Margaret makes an eloquent narrator and her story has extra dimensions outside of the 'care home' scenario, that make this a touching and rather memorable audiobook.



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