![]() ![]() By its end you know who this woman is, you are on her side, and you want to see what she’ll do next. Those first eight pages are a kind of tour of the character’s thoughts-smart, witty, insightful, honest, self-deprecating. The novel starts not with the crime (we don’t get to the missing person until page 14!) but with Manon at home on a snowy evening recalling a just concluded disastrous date. When I read Missing, Presumed, I found an original voice. ![]() While I never met Steiner, her writing had a profound effect on me. ![]() She lost her eyesight to a hereditary disease, retinitis pigmentosa, and was registered as fully blind just six months after publication of Missing, Presumed, which she described as “a lifelong dream come true.” Then, in 2019, while writing her third Manon novel, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor, grade 4 glioblastoma, which eventually took her life. But she also suffered several serious health issues. ![]()
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