Elizabeth Is Missing

Healey, Emma

ISBN 10: 1483018121 ISBN 13: 9781483018126

Publisher: Blackstone Pub, 2014

Synopsis

When Maud, an aging grandmother who is slowly losing her memory, is convinced that her best friend Elizabeth is missing and in terrible danger, she becomes obsessed with saving her beloved friend despite the fact that no one believes her.

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Review

"Elizabeth Is Missing is every bit as compelling as the...hype suggests.... 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."--The Observer, (London)

"A compelling read, Elizabeth is Missing offers added depth of mystery and suspense along with aptly portraying a family trying to cope with illness."--New York Journal of 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

"A gripping mystery...this bears comparison to A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and S. J. Watson's Before I Go to Sleep.--The Bookseller, "Ones to Watch"

Elizabeth Is Missing is every bit as compelling as the...hype suggests.... 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. --The Observer, (London)"

A compelling read, Elizabeth is Missing offers added depth of mystery and suspense along with aptly portraying a family trying to cope with illness. --New York Journal of 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"

A gripping mystery this bears comparison to A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and S. J. Watson s Before I Go to Sleep.--The Bookseller, "Ones to Watch""

[A] knockout debut . Ms. Healey s audacious conception and formidable talent combine in a bravura performance that sustains its momentum and pathos to the last. --Wall Street Journal"

Maud Horsham, the narrator of Emma Healey s spellbinding first novel is aware that she s slipping into dementia . It s a sad and lonely business watching your identity slowly slip away. But even at the end, Maud insists on making herself heard and understood. --New York Times Book Review"

Edition details

• Publisher: Blackstone Pub
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1483018121
• ISBN 13: 9781483018126
• Binding: Audio CD