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  • Elizabeth Is Missing

  • Written by: Emma Healey
  • Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
  • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (13 ratings)

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Elizabeth Is Missing

Written by: Emma Healey
Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
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NOW A MAJOR BBC DRAMA

A SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BEST SELLER

How do you solve a mystery when you can't remember the clues?

Maud is forgetful. She makes a cup of tea and doesn't remember to drink it. She goes to the shops and forgets why she went. Sometimes her home is unrecognizable - or her daughter Helen seems a total stranger. But there's one thing Maud is sure of: her friend Elizabeth is missing. The note in her pocket tells her so. And no matter who tells her to stop going on about it, to leave it alone, to shut up, Maud will get to the bottom of it. Because somewhere in Maud's damaged mind lies the answer to an unsolved seventy-year-old mystery. One everyone has forgotten about. Everyone, except Maud....

Winner of the Costa First Novel Award

Shortlisted for National Book Awards Popular Fiction Book

Shortlisted for National Book Awards New Writer of the Year

Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize

Longlisted for the Baileys Prize for Women's Fiction
©2014 Emma Healey (P)2014 W F Howes Ltd
Amateur Sleuth Suspense Psychological
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What the critics say

"A thrillingly assured, haunting and unsettling novel." (Deborah Moggach, author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel)

"Elizabeth Is Missing will stir and shake you: the most likeably unreliable of narrators, real mystery at its compassionate core...." (Emma Donoghue, author of Room)

"Resembling a version of Memento written by Alan Bennett." (Daily Telegraph)

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Refreshing POV !

Unexpectedly funny and charming. Was very pleasantly surprised by the story and the narration was perfectly done! If you are expecting some deep mystery you are missing the point of this point of view story!!
Knowing and working with many who suffer dementia and confusion I enjoyed hearing Maud's voice as she worked through the mystery of her personal circumstances, together with reflecting on mystery of her past as it mixed with present. Enjoyable story for those who want more than basic whodunnit and can actually see and feel the human experience through great writing.

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