Elizabeth is Missing - Couverture souple

Healey, Emma

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0241968186 ISBN 13 : 9780241968185

Editeur : Penguin, 2014

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“[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))

“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.” (The Independent, (London))

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Sunday Times Top Five Bestseller Elizabeth is Missing is the stunning, smash-hit debut novel from new author Emma HealeyWinner of the Costa First Novel Award 2014Shortlisted for National Book Awards Popular Fiction Book 2014Shortlisted for National Book Awards New Writer of the Year 2014Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2014Longlisted for the Baileys Prize for Women's Fiction 2015'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 will stir and shake you: the most likeably unreliable of narrators, real mystery at its compassionate core...' Emma Donoghue, author of Room 'Resembling a version of Memento written by Alan Bennett' Daily Telegraph'One of those mythical beasts, the book you cannot put down' Jonathan Coe, author of The Rotters Club'Every bit as compelling as the frenzied hype suggests. Gripping, haunting' Observer'If you're after a read you can't put down, then look no further' New!Meet Maud.Maud is forgetful. She makes a cup of tea and doesn't remember to drink it. She goes to the shops and forgets why she went. Sometimes her home is unrecognizable - or her daughter Helen seems a total stranger.But there's one thing Maud is sure of: her friend Elizabeth is missing. The note in her pocket tells her so. And no matter who tells her to stop going on about it, to leave it alone, to shut up, Maud will get to the bottom of it.Because somewhere in Maud's damaged mind lies the answer to an unsolved seventy-year-old mystery. One everyone has forgotten about. Everyone, except Maud . . .

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0241968186
• ISBN 13: 9780241968185
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304