Memoirs of a Midget
by Walter De La Mare
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Author: Walter De La MareEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-11-16
ISBN: 1408633809
Number of pages: 404
Publisher: Herzberg Press
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Book Review: A Forgotten Classic?
Summary: 4 Stars
`Memoirs of a Midget' is the life and times of Miss M, told by none other than Miss M herself. Born from two `non-midget' parents we follow her through her childhood and then through her early adult life and onwards after her parents both pass away. This indeed is mainly a book about how society deals with people who are different and looks at how Miss M is vilified by some, loved by others and isolated by many, written in the time it was it somehow doesn't seem to have aged at all and in some ways could have been written quite recently. For me the tell tale signs it was a much older book were of course the fact that technology wasn't up to date but there were other signs that it was a classic like the names of characters such Pollie Muggeridge or Lady Pollacke. There are many other wonderful characters with no actual name just a Mr or Mrs and then a wonderful surname like Bowater, Hubbins or Crimble.
All these characters were wonderful and added to the density and panorama of the book which has a huge scope and travels around Britain as it goes leading up to Miss M's arrival in London. My favourite character partly because she was so bolshie, lovely and then suddenly serpentine was Fanny Bowater (every great classic has a character somewhere in it called Fanny, honestly, you have a think) who in some parts actually stole the show (literally) completely from Miss M.
Miss M is a fascinating character though, for a while I got slightly annoyed I couldn't work out exactly how tall she was or wasn't as it made her hard to visualise but eventually I worked it out and from then on was completely swept along by her story. I found the tales of the people she met and how they reacted to her and the fact she was so different very moving, occasionally funny and always touching. If you like big great long adventures with one protagonist as they struggle through the highs and lows of their life then this book is definitely one for you to read, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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