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Post by Hippiejo on Jun 20, 2021 21:06:36 GMT
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma HealeyA mystery, an unsolved crime and one of the most unforgettable characters since Mark Haddon's Christopher. Meet Maud ...
'Elizabeth is missing' reads the note in Maud's pocket in her own handwriting, and the one on the wall.
Maud's been getting forgetful. She keeps buying peach slices when she has a cupboard full, forgets to drink the cups of tea she's made and writes notes to remind herself of things. But Maud is determined to discover what has happened to her friend, Elizabeth, and what it has to do with the unsolved disappearance of her sister Sukey, years back, just after the war.
A fast-paced mystery, an unforgettable voice: you will laugh and cry but you'll never forget Maud.
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Post by Hippiejo on Jun 20, 2021 21:22:01 GMT
I have really mixed feelings about this book. On the downside, I found it to be quite frustrating and confusing. Because we are reading about the onset and decline of an 82 year old woman with dementia, there was a lot of repetition and switching between timelines which gave the feeling that the story wasn't really getting anywhere. I think part of the irritation for me was that we weren't really sure what the mystery actually was * but... ... this leads me to the upside of the book. I had to remind myself that this was written from the perspective of the 82 year old Maud who had dementia, so we were piecing things together at the same time that she was. We were viewing the other people in her story as she did which meant they weren't always terribly likeable and neither at times was she. What this book did exceptionally well, was to help the reader gain some insight into the confusion and life gaps that dementia sufferers struggle with. I can't say that I actually enjoyed this book, but I did find it quite compelling and it held my interest enough not to dnf it. I didn't hate it but, I won't be keeping it on my bookshelf. *{Spoiler}because it was fairly evident early on that Elizabeth wasn't actually missing.
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