Elizabeth Is Missing

from julie10reads

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.A page turning mystery and a piercingly honest portrait of love and memory that takes us from post ...

from Informationoverlord

An interesting dual mystery that doesn't quite match the hype. However, the idea of having a central character who is either just normally senile or suffering from dementia or similar means you get a ready-made unreliable narrator, which I quite like. The thing with unreliable narrators is that y...

from Smits

Such a delighted character we have in Maude when she is young but especially when she is 80 and her memory is failing but she is determined to figure out where her friend Elizabeth is and what happened to her sister Sukey. But no one will listen to an old lady with dementia. Her long suffering da...

from shelleyraec

Elizabeth is Missing by debut author Emma Healey is a poignant and gripping mystery about loss, memory and murder. The narrative unfolds from the unique perspective of Maud Horsham, an eighty two year old mother and grandmother, suffering from progressive dementia. Maud relies on carefully writte...

from LTKiJE

"Elizabeth is Missing" is a wonderful story. I would encourage anyone working with the elderly, or those who have aging parents - this is a MUST read!