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Elizabeth is Missing
  • Published: 2 January 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241968185
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $28.00

Elizabeth is Missing

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2 Jan 2015
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5 June 2014
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A mystery, an unsolved crime and one of the most unforgettable characters since Mark Haddon's Christopher. Meet Maud. . .

'Elizabeth is missing', reads the note in Maud's pocket in her own handwriting.

Lately, Maud's been getting forgetful. She keeps buying peach slices when she has a cupboard full, forgets to drink the cups of tea she's made and writes notes to remind herself of things. But Maud is determined to discover what has happened to her friend, Elizabeth, and what it has to do with the unsolved disappearance of her sister Sukey, years back, just after the war.

A fast-paced mystery with a wonderful leading character: Maud will make you laugh and cry, but she certainly won't be forgotten.
  • Published: 2 January 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241968185
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $28.00
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About the author

Emma Healey

Emma Healey grew up in London and completed her first degree in bookbinding. She then worked for libraries, bookshops, art galleries and universities before studying for the MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 2010. She is the author of Whistle in the Dark, and Elizabeth is Missing, which was a Sunday Times Bestseller, won the Costa First Novel Award 2014, and was made into a BBC film starring Glenda Jackson. She lives in Norwich with her husband, daughter and cat, and regularly volunteers for Vision Norfolk with a group of visually impaired, and incredibly imaginative, creative writers.

EH

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Praise 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