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Elizabeth is Missing

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241968185

  • Length: 304  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 205g

  • RRP: £8.99

Elizabeth is Missing

'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.

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241968185

  • Length: 304  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 205g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • 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

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About the Author

Emma Healey

Emma Healey, a former bookseller, grew up in London where she went to art college and completed her first degree in bookbinding. She then worked for two libraries, two bookshops, two art galleries and two universities, and was busily pursuing a career in the art world before writing overtook everything. She moved to Norwich in 2010 to study for the MA in Creative Writing at UEA and never moved back again. Elizabeth is Missing, her first novel, was a Sunday Times Bestseller, won the Costa First Novel Award 2014 and was shortlisted for the National Book Awards Popular Fiction Book of the Year.

Emma Healey

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