“[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))

“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)

“This novel genuinely is one of those semi-mythical beasts, the book you cannot put down.” (Jonathan Coe, author of The Rotter’s Club)

“British author Healey draws on her own grandmothers’ experiences to create the distinctive narrator of her first novel… an absorbing tale.” (Publishers Weekly)

“A gripping mystery…this bears comparison to A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and S. J. Watson’s Before I Go to Sleep. (The Bookseller, “Ones to Watch”)

“Healey is able to imagine and empathize on such a level because she’s simply a brilliant writer. Let’s hope we hear much more from her over the years.” (BookPage) --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Broché .