Her story takes a few unforeseen directions (and some you can see coming). It's a good look into some hard truths about our social care system. And ultimately an uplifting story about a woman treated badly but coming out the other side with her dignity and humour intact. 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. There’s only one problem if you opt for the audio version, which is brilliant in every other way. Through the narrator's voice, you will discover at least the gender of the mysterious ‘C’, which eliminates half of the potential suspects from the list. Reading the book would have helped retain the mystery better. a b Gagehabib, La Verne; Summerhawk, Barbara (2000). Circles of Power: Shifting Dynamics in a Lesbian-centered community. Norwich, VT: New Victoria Publishers. ISBN 1-892281-13-9.

But someone is sending her notes with cash, signed with “C x”: she believes it’s Cilla but, except for the one read to her by the young man in Sainsbury’s, she has no idea what they say, and she’s reluctant to ask Wayne, because he will probably think she’s lost it. She likes the life she has now, her routine and the people in her life, and the last thing she wants is to be put away again. I’m writing on behalf of the National Maritime Museum (Royal Museums Greenwich) to express our sadness about the loss of Marga Small, whom we remember warmly from her time as a research fellow at the Museum 20 years ago. I reflected a lot on her as a person in the days after that conversation. I thought about her as woman who offered empathy to another. I learned of her passing not even a week after that and was – am – so deeply saddened by it. Attending her services, I learned that I was just one of the many people to whom Marga had brought some lightness in difficult times.

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John Major replaced Margaret Thatcher after she announced her resignation as Conservative Party leader and prime minister on November 22, 1990. Close to the end, we were told Margaret's birth date. I'd like to think this is why I felt that she was so special to me. My own daughter was born on Margaret's birthday. 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. Marga joined Birmingham in 2007 as Lecturer in Europe and the Wider World and achieved a much-deserved promotion to Senior Lecturer in 2021. In addition to her world-leading monograph Framing the World: Classical Influences on Sixteenth-Century Geographical Thought (The Boydell Press, 2020), Marga’s many publications included a prize-winning article in Renaissance Studies and another in Sixteenth-Century Studies – two of the most prestigious peer-reviewed journals in her field.

I first encountered Margaret during my undergraduate studies, but it was during my masters that I properly got to know her as my personal tutor. Starting a masters in the middle of the pandemic was a difficult experience but Margaret was exactly what we needed in a tutor, and she went above and beyond what was expected of her. She was not only a source of professional support but an increasingly kind, caring, and considerate academic who took it upon herself to ensure that we still had a wonderful experience in difficult circumstances. Our personal tutor meetings were intellectually stimulating, and she brought with it, her passion for the discipline and incredible breadth of knowledge. Margaret Thatcher (born October 13, 1925, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England—died April 8, 2013, London) British Conservative Party politician and prime minister (1979–90), Europe’s first woman prime minister. The only British prime minister in the 20th century to win three consecutive terms and, at the time of her resignation, Britain’s longest continuously serving prime minister since 1827, she accelerated the evolution of the British economy from statism to liberalism and became, by personality as much as achievement, the most renowned British political leader since Winston Churchill. She was a role model for a later prime minister, Liz Truss. Early years The Vanishing of Margaret Small is the first novel by British author, Neil Alexander. The audio version is narrated by Annie Aldington and Rachel Atkins. In 1947, at the age of seven, Margaret Small is collected without explanation from her grandmother’s home by a man she dubs The Rat Catcher.The chapters are short, adding to the pace of the novel. (I was a bit apprehensive to see eighty-seven chapters at first! Needn’t have worried.)