Elizabeth Is Missing

Emma Healey 2014

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
dementia mystery aging friendship

Our Take

Maud is eighty-two and losing her memory, and she believes her friend Elizabeth has disappeared — a belief everyone dismisses. Healey structures the novel around two disappearances decades apart, making the dementia a formal device that mirrors the plot's concealment. When the truth surfaces, you've been living in it for chapters.

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