Sunday, July 20, 2014

Elizabeth Is Missing / Emma Healey / 303 pages / April Challenge Rain

Maud suffers from dementia and constantly writes notes in an attempt to remember significant things.  She has several carers and a daughter, Helen, and a granddaughter to remind her who she is and what she is about.  She is extremely concerned about her friend Elizabeth whom she thinks is missing.  She is relentless in her determination to find her friend, frequenting the police station to report her loss.  Her intransigence is instrumental in solving the seventy year old disappearance of her sister, Sukey.  Miss Healey did a masterful job of crafting the character Maud.  The reader is drawn to her, fears for her, and perhaps fears for her/him self as he/she falls victim to occasional memory losses...

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