by Emma Healey
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...
Elizabeth is Missing is told from the perspective of Maud, an 82-year-old woman who suffers from Alzheimer. Maud is trying to lead her life as well as possible. With all her struggles there is one thing that bothers her in particular: her friend Elizabeth is missing. While trying to find her, Maud r...
Coming June 5th From Penguin. Thank you for the advanced copy via Netgalley. 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 wha...
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