Elizabeth is Missing

So engrossing - excellent first-person narrative from a character with dementia. Heartbreaking, because I'm sure that's really how thoughts flow for them. Makes me feel more empathetic. In addition, the mystery of the plot is very intriguing.

A beautifully written book about a woman who starts to lose her memory. She can't really tell the difference between the past and the present. She struggles every day, and so does her daughter. The memories of her sister's disappearance disturbs her until the end. The fact that she also lost her best friend, made the situation even harder.

The book reminds me to love and to understand my parents better; teaches me to be patient with the weak, the sick and the older people. This book also teaches me to cherish my life. Every day.

A very interesting read. The author gives a great perspective from someone suffering from Alzheimers. Pulled at my heartstrings. The plot is interesting with plenty of twists and turns and keeps your interest throughout.

This book was interesting in that it was written from the point of view of an older woman, evidently going senile. It did keep me interested. Better than some of the 'same old, same old' that is out there!

My late mother had Alzheimer's disease and I wish that after reading this book I had had more patience with her. It is so hard to put yourself in the shoes of the person with this disease,it requires so much understanding and patience and has given me much more insight into how scared this person would be.

I loved this novel because there is mystery throughout but not morbid. The narrator tells the story through her mind, which is riddled with memory loss due to her dementia. Emma Healey is excellent at showing us how the mind with dementia works.

Really enjoyed this story. I was intrigued right to the end. The descriptions of the characters were so vivid I felt I had seen them. A well written book with complex characters and a good feel for the damage wrought by dementia .

Quickly felt the frustration of the main character who was so worried about Elizabeth. Took awhile to keep characters straight, especially weaving in and out if past and present. But beautiful story. Made me hope as I age, someone will be there to worry about me.

Ms Healey writes a compelling tale written from the perspective of a lady with Alzheimer's. I don't know how Ms. Healey knows what a person with Alzheimer's thinks, but the narrative is absolutely convincing. The interweaving of current thoughts vice old memories leads one down the road to a very interesting conclusion. Recommended.

This book is so good and surprising. It keeps you guessing throughout. The lead character who has dementia keeps looking for her friend, Elizabeth. She constantly pesters the police, her family, and Elizabeth's son trying to get them to help her find Elizabeth. This pursuit leads to the finding of a body and an apology by the police. The violence is in the past.

Interesting plot, especially as the narrator is a woman with increasing dementia. Eventually the woman's daughter puts together what the woman has been agitated about and finds proof that there was meaning in her mother's ramblings. Fascinating that a plot is revealed in this way.

I loved this book! a very different crime mystery. The main character Maud was a joy to follow in her own logic which constantly put her at odds with those around her. My own mother has Alzheimers and I got a lot of Aha's and good laughs seeing how the train of thought gave surprising consequences. And Maud wasn't as off as she might seem, it just took some better paying attention from her surrounding people.

I both enjoyed and hated this book. It was suspenseful and well-written. It was also tedious because the author did a good job depicting the protagonist's dementia. I think tedious actually won out.

The writing and story were superb; dementia, however, is cruel and heinous. I loved the mysteries woven into the storyline and the point of view by which the story is told. It's a book that will forever change how I see elderly people in the throes of dementia. Bravo, Ms. Healy!

The writing and story were superb; dementia, however, is cruel and heinous. I loved the mysteries woven into the storyline and the point of view by which the story is told. It's a book that will forever change how I see elderly people in the throes of dementia. Bravo, Ms. Healy!

An amazingly thoughtful and well written novel. The imagery puts us into the aging mind and makes us treasure Maud. The story is totally believable and I can see myself in her snail-crunching shoes. While not a happy book, there is plenty of humor. A tremendously good read.

Readers who enjoyed Haddon's "Curious Incident...", will probably like this one too. It is heartbreaking and sad, but also somewhat of a pageturner as it also contains aspects of a crime novel. At certain points, it is laugh-out-loud funny, but it never pokes fun at the protagonist. Healey, in my opinion, succeeds to give an inside view of the mind, reasoning and flow of consciousness of a person with advanced dementia, even as her reality gets more and more confusing and fragmented.

Excellent read.It was a very clever way to examine somebody's mind in the early stages od Demensia. The underlying mystery kept you reading and intrigued to the end.Written in the first person you felt you could understand the erratic behaviour of the old lady as she gradually lost her hold on reality. It was never sentimental or morbid and it made you laugh out loud at times. It is beautifully written and a great first novel for Emma Healy.

well written and thoughtful. This book also makes you think about how you talk about and treat those with types of dementia. This tells a wonderful story of family struggle, heartache and love. It is a great read and one you will truly love.

The back and forth between reality and Alzheimer's helped me understand in a tiny way how unnerving it is to lose one's memory... This however doesn't take away from the story. The lose ending resonates with life where not everything can be tied up neatly in a bow.

I really enjoyed it. I loved that it was narrated by a the main character as a girl and later as an elder who in the beginning has the first stages of demenia/ alzheimer's and later is extremely confused. It's simiilar in ways to Still Alice, but there's something a little more real about the narrator's elderly voice and her feelings for her children. Heartbreaking and sad in a sense but so real it made me think about how my thought process might or might not be different as I age. The underlying story is a little too predictable.

This is an excellent novel. At first I thought it was a story about an older woman with alzheimers - told from her perspective.
At one level, it is. Emma Healey does this narrative very very well. But ..... and I will not reveal the ending ..... it is much more.
A sensitively written book and a good mystery and social commentary at the same time.

The flashback portion of the book is interesting and I thought it was going to end differently. The other half of the book was a disturbing, thought provoking and, I fear, honest look at the aging process. It made me think about being old and diminished capacity from a new perspective.

Both my parents had dementia, so I was afraid this might be a difficult read. It was so uplifting. I know it's fiction... but I like to believe (and I do believe) that my parents had a lot going on that they couldn't quite express or keep track of.

The subject matter is simple and part and parcel of life. It holds the reader's interest from the beginning to the end and only after shutting the book the reader realises the artistic skill of the author. The many different angles of the story are so seamlesslywoven into the main fabric that there is not a single loose end left dangling at the end!