Elizabeth Is Missing Audiobook

Quotes

• “Ingeniously structured and remarkably poignant, Elizabeth is Missing is a riveting story of friendship and loss that will have you compulsively puzzling fact from fiction as you race to the last page.”

  — Kimberly McCreight, New York Times bestselling author

• “[A] knockout debut…Healey’s audacious conception and formidable talent combine in a bravura performance that sustains its momentum and pathos to the last.”

  — Wall Street Journal

• “Elizabeth Is Missing is every bit as compelling as the frenzied hype suggests…Both a gripping detective yarn and a haunting depiction of mental illness, but also more poignant and blackly comic than you might expect.”

  — The Observer (London)

• “Part mystery, part meditation on memory…this is altogether brilliant.”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “Suspenseful and emotional in equal parts, the author’s debut hits all the right notes.”

  — Library Journal (starred review)

• “Maud’s memory is failing, slipping further away each day. So how can she convince anyone that her best friend is truly missing?…A poignant novel of loss.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• “British author Healey draws on her own grandmothers’ experiences to create the distinctive narrator of her first novel…An absorbing tale.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “This novel genuinely is one of those semi-mythical beasts, the book you cannot put down.”

  — Jonathan Coe, author of The Rotter’s Club

• “A thrillingly assured, haunting and unsettling novel, I read it at a gulp.”

  — Deborah Moggach, author of Heartbreak Hotel

• “What’s truly astonishing about the book is that its author…isn’t even thirty years old. How can she know what it’s like for a person to lose herself, bit by bit? How can her descriptions of World War II, with all the shabbiness and rationing and black-market intrigue, be so vivid? Of course, Healey is able to imagine and empathize on such a level because she’s simply a brilliant writer. Let’s hope we hear much more from her over the years.”

  — BookPage

• “Maud Horsham, the narrator of Emma Healey’s spellbinding first novel, Elizabeth Is Missing, is aware that she’s slipping into dementia…It’s a sad and lonely business, watching your identity slowly slip away. But even at the end, Maud insists on making herself heard and understood.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “This is no conventional crime novel but a compelling work that crosses literary genres…The result is bold, touching, and hugely memorable.”

  — Sunday Times (London)

• “It is a gripping thriller, but it’s also about life and love, the love of an exasperated daughter for her mother, the love of sisters and of friends, and the love I felt for Maud.”

  — Independent (London)

• “A compelling read, Elizabeth Is Missing offers added depth of mystery and suspense along with aptly portraying a family trying to cope with illness.”

  — New York Journal of Books