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"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

"[A] knockout debut.... Ms. Healey's audacious conception and formidable talent combine in a bravura performance that sustains its momentum and pathos to the last."--Wall Street Journal

"Maud Horsham, the narrator of Emma Healey's spellbinding first novel...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

"Part mystery, part meditation on memory, part Dickensian revelation of how apparent charity may hurt its recipients, this is altogether brilliant."--Booklist (starred review)

"A thrillingly assured, haunting and unsettling novel, I read it at a gulp."--Deborah Moggach, author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

"Elizabeth Is Missing is every bit as compelling as the...hype suggests.... The novel is 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)

"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

"Elizabeth is Missing will stir and shake you: an investigation into a seventy-year-old crime, through the eyes of the most likeably unreliable of narrators. But the real mystery at its compassionate core is the fragmentation of the human mind."--Emma Donoghue

"Ingeniously structured and remarkably poignant.... 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 of Reconstructing Amelia

"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)