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Harper
June 2014
On Sale: June 10, 2014
Featuring: Maud; Elizabeth
320 pages
ISBN: 0062309668
EAN: 9780062309662
Kindle: B00FJ3AAWQ
Hardcover / e-Book
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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 present. But the clues she discovers seem
only to lead her deeper into her past, to another unsolved
disappearance: her sister, Sukey, who vanished shortly after
World War II. As vivid memories of a tragedy that occurred more fifty
years ago come flooding back, Maud discovers new momentum in
her search for her friend. Could the mystery of Sukey’s
disappearance hold the key to finding Elizabeth?
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