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