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The Marginal Notes

Voss and Found, Book 1

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The Marginal Notes

By: Clare Bastion
Narrated by: Katherine Bligh
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Miriam Voss runs a quiet antiquarian bookshop in Harwick, where the work is usually simple: assess the books, catalogue them, and send them on to their next reader.

Then the Haar estate arrives.

Three hundred and eighty-seven volumes from the private library of the late neurologist Clement Haar. Most are ordinary enough—serious books, carefully read, densely annotated.

But twenty-two of them contain something else.

A second hand in the margins.

For thirty years, someone answered Haar’s arguments. Corrected his readings. Challenged his conclusions. Sometimes agreed with him in a single quiet word.

No signature. Only the initial E.

As Miriam studies the exchange, the books begin to reveal a long intellectual conversation—one that shaped how Haar read, and perhaps how he lived.

Determined to understand the provenance before the volumes are sold, Miriam begins tracing the identity behind the annotations.

What she finds is not merely a missing owner.

It is the record of a relationship written slowly in the margins of books.

A quiet literary mystery audiobook about reading, memory, and the conversations that outlive the people who began them.

©2026 Clare Bastion (P)2026 Clare Bastion
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