- Older women, Missing persons, Dementia, Fiction
"Elizabeth is missing", reads the note in Maud's pocket in her own handwriting. Lately, Maud's been getting forgetful. She keeps buying peach slices when she has a cupboard full, forgets to drink the cups of tea she's made and writes notes to remind herself of things. But Maud is determined to discover what has happened to her friend, Elizabeth, and what it has to do with the unsolved disappearance of her sister Sukey, years back, just after the war. A fast-paced mystery with a wonderful leading character: Maud will make you laugh and cry, but she certainly won't be forgotten.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Earnest, spare, intimate and contemporary.
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Emma Healey
- First published
- 2014
- Pages
- 274
- Publisher
- Harper, Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, Knopf Canada
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781445099132
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 6 have read it and 20 want to.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Rubyfruit Jungle 197374% alikeClose across the board.
Close across the board.
Seven Days in June 202173% alikeClose across the board.
When You Reach Me 200972% alikeBoth earnest.
Remarkably Bright Creatures 202272% alikeBoth earnest.
The Sun is Also a Star 201671% alikeClose across the board.
Such a Fun Age 201971% alikeBoth spare.
The Paper Palace 202171% alikeBoth earnest.
The Naked Spur 195372% alikeFilm · Both earnest.
Pump Up the Volume 199072% alikeFilm · Both spare.