Elizabeth is Missing
Meet Maud . 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...
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Meet Maud
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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 . . .
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780241968192
Publish date: 2014-06
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 330
Edition language: English
I finished this book yesterday afternoon and I still feel conflicted as to how to rate it. I enjoyed reading the book and I thought the character Maud was so well written. It felt like I was getting a real insight into how the thought process of a person with dementia works. My issue though is tha...
This book was fantastic and well worthy of the Costa First Novel Award. It tells the story of Maud who is in her eighties and is suffering from dementia. She’s trying to piece together the mystery of the disappearance of her friend, Elizabeth. Because she has dementia, she writes herself notes to ...
published-2014, net-galley, summer-2014, debut, mental-health, those-autumn-years, mystery-thriller, anti-q-s, a-questing-we-shall-go, britain-england, chase-me-chase-me, e-book, ipad, lifestyles-deathstyles, newtome-author, period-piece, contemporary Read from August 22 to 29, 2014 Description: ...
Elizabeth is Missing is a beautifully written novel about dementia combined with a mystery involving the lead characters missing sister.Maude is in her 80s. Widowed with a daughter, a son who she rarely sees and a teenage grand- daughter. She is also a dementia sufferer who is angered when her claim...
This is the story of Maud, the ultimate unreliable narrator, an elderly woman suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease and obsessed with the absence of her friend Elizabeth. It’s told from Maud’s perspective and into the confused narrative of her everyday life and her struggle to come to terms with the lo...
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