This is not the kind of book I normally read, and I didn’t know much about it when I started to listen, but actually I found it on the whole really fun and interesting to listen to, largely, perhaps, due to the fabulous main narrator who really brought the character of Margaret Small to life – like I was listening to a one woman play monologue thingy.
The ‘vanishing’ of Margaret, was when she was taken from her grandmother (who was raising her) aged 7 and put into an asylum (home for the mentally/physically disabled) and given no education and very little human kindness and kept locked up until well into adulthood.
Margaret narrates the story from when she has been released from the home and now has a wonderful carer/social worker who looks out for her with such love and fun, looking back over her life and experiences.
There is a mystery element when Margaret starts getting notes and gifts from an mysterious source who just signs them as ‘C’, and the reveal about who is sending them is nice and satisfying.
Sarah Wray Writer 