The Margin Note

About The Margin Note

Deep winter has shut Alderly indoors — the perfect season for old books and older questions, and the question handed to Megan Ridley is a dangerous one. A lifetime of notes pencilled into the margins of a single treasured volume hints that a celebrated literary reputation may rest on a quiet lie — one a careful reader spent forty years trying to prove. Days later, the man who kept those notes is dead. As Megan follows a trail written down the edges of pages, she learns just how much someone will risk to keep a margin note from being read aloud. Intelligent, intimate, and steeped in the love of books that defines the series, The Margin Note asks who gets remembered, who gets erased, and what we owe the truth