Emma Healey
Elizabeth is Missing
Winner: Costa First Novel Award
Winner: Betty Trask Award 2015
Shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and Authors Club Best First Novel Award
A Sunday Times bestseller
Elizabeth is Missing will stir and shake you.' Emma Donoghue, author of Room.
'Elizabeth is missing' reads the note in Maud's pocket in her own handwriting, and the one on the wall.
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, an unforgettable voice: you will laugh and cry but you'll never forget Maud.
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[A] spellbinding first novel
New York Times
Brilliant . . . an unforgettable novel.
Sunday Express
A painfully sad but brilliant debut.
Sunday Mirror
Arresting . . . chilling . . . touching.
Metro
Deeply charming mystery yarn . . . add it to your summer reading list.
Sunday Times Style'Going Up' Radar
The Independent
A tender but not sentimental book — charming but never cloying. And in Maud, Healey has found a fascinating voice: a heroine suffering from memory loss who is herself hard to forget.
Evening Standard
Healey . . . compassionately draws the landscape of Maud’s mind, layering the past over the present, blurring the lines between reality and memory . . . A poignant novel of loss.
Kirkus Review Full Review
author of The Bear
A remarkably insightful and gripping debut novel. With consummate skill, Emma Healey portrays Maud as an aging grandmother and as a teenager during the war years in Britain. The parallel stories about a missing friend and missing sister are equally convincing, flawlessly interwoven, and beautifully written with tenderness, truth and wisdom. The urgency of finding and putting together the pieces of life’s puzzles, whether their loss is due to fractured memory or adult secrets, is a universal dilemma, and it kept me riveted. I couldn’t put the book down until I read the last sentence, and I wondered how a writer still in her twenties could accomplish this feat of storytelling about the intensity of family ties and the deathless power of its love. I can’t wait to see what she does next.
Lilian Nattelauthor of Web of Angels
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2014 Preview
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ELIZABETH IS MISSING shortlisted for CAMEO awards
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Elizabeth is Missing airs on BBC One
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Glenda Jackson to star in Elizabeth is Missing
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BBC1 to adapt Emma Healey’s Elizabeth is Missing
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Elizabeth is Missing is second most popular reading group book
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Bestselling Books of 2015
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International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Nominees Announced
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Jonny Geller, David Nicholls and Emma Healey among Evening Standard's 1000 Most Influential People
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Ben Fergusson wins The Betty Trask Award for The Spring of Kasper Meier
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Ben Fergusson, Emma Healey and Simon Wroe shortlisted for Betty Trask Prize
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Emma Healey shortlisted for Desmond Elliott Prize
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Four authors on Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award shortlist
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Emma Healey longlisted for Desmond Elliott Prize
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Emma Healey on longlist for Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction
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Elizabeth is Missing is Norwegian bestseller
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Emma Healey wins Costa First Novel Award
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Healey, McPartlin and Parsons are Richard and Judy picks
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Emma Healey on shortlist for Costa Book Awards
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Emma Healey longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2014
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Summer Reads 2014