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ELIZABETH IS MISSING
By: Emma Healey
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 novelโa sophisticated psychological mystery that is also an heartbreakingly honest meditation on memory, identity, and agingโan 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 memoryโand 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 Maudโnot her frustrated daughter, Helen, not her caretakers, not the police, and especially not Elizabethโs 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 Maudโs 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 Sukeyโs disappearance hold the key to finding Elizabeth?
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