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Elizabeth is Missing

Emma Healey

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English
Penguin
02 January 2015
What if you could remember just one thing? Maud is forgetful. She makes a cup of tea and doesn't remember to drink it. She goes to the shops and forgets why she went. Back home she finds the place horribly unrecognisable - just like she sometimes thinks her daughter Helen is a total stranger.

But there's one thing Maud is sure of: her friend Elizabeth is missing. The note in her pocket tells her so. And no matter who tells her to stop going on about it, to leave it alone, to shut up, Maud will get to the bottom of it. Because somewhere in Maud's damaged mind lies the answer to an unsolved seventy-year-old mystery. One everyone has forgotten about. Everyone, except Maud...

Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey at Abbey's Bookshop 131 York Street, Sydney

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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   217g
ISBN:   9780241968185
ISBN 10:   0241968186
Pages:   272
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Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  ELT Advanced ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for Elizabeth is Missing

The novel is both a gripping detective yarn and a haunting depiction of mental illness, but also more poignant and blackly comic than you might expect from that description... perhaps Healey's greatest achievement is the flawless voice she creates for Maud. The Observer A compelling mystery that capture the experience of Maud, a highly memorable elderly woman losing her memory Sunday Express Riveting psychological thriller Stylist's Best Books of 2014 A thrillingly assured, haunting and unsettling novel, I read it at a gulp -- Deborah Moggach


  • Short-listed for Costa First Novel Award 2014
  • Shortlisted for Costa First Novel Award 2014.

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