Elizabeth Is Missing
β Scribed by Healey, Emma
- Book ID
- 107660823
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 254 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780062309662
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β¦ Synopsis
In this darkly riveting debut novel--a sophisticated psychological mystery that is also an heartbreakingly honest meditation on memory, identity, and aging--an elderly woman descending into dementia embarks on a desperate quest to find the best friend she believes has disappeared, and her search for the truth will go back decades and have shattering consequences.
Maud, an aging grandmother, is slowly losing her memory--and her grip on everyday life. Yet she refuses to forget her best friend Elizabeth, whom she is convinced is missing and in terrible danger.
But no one will listen to Maud--not her frustrated daughter, Helen, not her caretakers, not the police, and especially not Elizabeth's mercurial son, Peter. Armed with handwritten notes she leaves for herself and an overwhelming feeling that Elizabeth needs her help, Maud resolves to discover the truth and save her beloved friend.
This singular obsession forms a cornerstone of Maud's rapidly dissolving...
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An internationally heralded debut novel of extraordinary warmth, insight and humanity that will appeal to readers who loved *The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry* and *Still Alice*: *Elizabeth Is Missing* is at once a page-turning mystery that takes us from post-war Britain to the present day and a