Elizabeth Is Missing
WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL 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...
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WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL
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 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: paperback
ISBN:
9780345808318 (0345808312)
Publish date: 2015-05-02
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
I enjoyed this book, it really got 'under my skin'. Emma Healey paints a very convincing picture of a woman sliding progressively into dementia and I felt as if I was sliding with her! Maud is 82 and managing to live in her own home, with the help of visits from her daughter, Helen and a carer who c...
...who was so fascinated by her own mother's dementia that she went back to school and became a gerontologist. Cleverly written from the POV of an elderly woman with dementia, you get a small flavor as to what that might be like.
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