Missing: A Social History of Glasgow and Gloucester Book

This was... not what I was expecting. I thought it would be a book about how and way people end up missing, but the first part was mainly about the author's family and childhood with a few very tentative links to the subject of people going "missing" (a grandfather who was lost at sea and a little boy who went missing from the author's childhood estate). There were a few interesting bits about the history of Glasgow, but mainly I wondered what the point was. The second part of the book was entitled "The Missing" and I thought it would start getting to the point then, but it didn't really. A large chunk of the second book was dedicated to the victims of Fred and Rosemary West, but still managed to only skirt the issue. Then he referenced a few conversations he'd had with homeless people, some of whom are officially missing.... and that was it. A disappointing book!