Elizabeth is Missing – Emma Healey

This is a story about a woman’s troubled past interwoven with her messy present. And every word is drenched with this confusion which gives the word ‘mystery’ a WHOLE other level. A hauntingly beautiful and richly irritating story which follows Maud’s attempt at untangling her worlds which leads to an even messier mind. She did not do that on purpose, oh NO, but by the end she’s so consumed by all those tales that she’d formed that she forgets almost everything else. It’s symbolic because as Maud succeeds in solving a decades old mystery, she turns into a sort of a ‘mad woman’ – like the one she was chased by when she was a young girl.
Elizabeth is Missing – Emma Healey