Elizabeth is Missing
  • Published: 5 June 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241968192
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288

Elizabeth is Missing

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2 Jan 2015
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5 Jun 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: 5 June 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241968192
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288
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About the author

Emma Healey

Emma Healey is 28 years old and grew up in London. She has spent most of her working life in libraries, bookshops and galleries. She completed the MA in Creative Writing: Prose at UEA in 2011. Elizabeth is Missing is her first novel.

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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

A thrillingly assured, haunting and unsettling novel, I read it at a gulp

Deborah Moggach

One of those semi-mythical beasts, the book you cannot put down

Jonathan Coe

Already being tipped for literary stardom. At the London Book Fair last April, nine publishers fought for her debut, Elizabeth is Missing... a tale of dementia, its TV rights have already been sold

Evening Standard's Fourteen in 2014

Memory - or the lack of it - continues to be a big theme in fiction. The manuscript of this debut mystery narrated by an 81 year old who can't quite remember what she's investigating created a buzz at the London book fair in 2013

Guardian's 2014 Books

Elizabeth is Missing will stir and shake you: an investigation into a seventy-year-old crime, through the eyes of the most likeably unreliable of narrators. But the real mystery at its compassionate core is the fragmentation of the human mind.

Emma Donoghue, award-winning author of Room