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FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ELIZABETH IS MISSING

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Finally, this felt like revenge.

I was out of the labyrinth, it was all a memory, no map needed. I could enjoy the scenery. Enjoy looking. So I looked.

The tautening skin, the stirring muscles, those green eyes, vibrant despite their sightlessness. I stared at him as if he were a picture. I stared at him the way women never get to stare at men: without fear.

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PRAISE FOR EMMA HEALEY'S ELIZABETH IS MISSING

‘Every bit as compelling as the frenzied hype suggests. Gripping, haunting’
OBSERVER

‘A riveting psychological thriller’
STYLIST

‘Utterly compelling’
ROSAMUND LUPTON

‘Will stir and shake you: the most likeably unreliable of narrators,real mystery at its compassionate core’
EMMA DONOGHUE

‘A thrillingly assured, haunting and unsettling novel, I read it at a gulp’
DEBORAH MOGGACH

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.

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