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How do you solve a mystery when you can't remember the clues?In this darkly riveting debut novel--a sophisticated psychological mystery that is also an heartbreakingly honest meditation on memory, identity, and aging--an elderly woman descending into dementia embarks on a desperate quest to find the best friend she believes has disappeared, and her search for the truth will go back decades and have shattering consequences.Maud, an aging grandmother, is slowly losing her memory--and her grip on everyday life. Yet she refuses to forget her best friend Elizabeth, whom she is convinced is missing and in terrible danger.But no one will listen to Maud--not her frustrated daughter, Helen, not her caretakers, not the police, and especially not Elizabeth's mercurial son, Peter. Armed with handwritten notes she leaves for herself and an overwhelming feeling that Elizabeth needs her help, Maud resolves to discover the truth and save her beloved friend.This singular obsession forms a cornerstone of Maud's rapidly dissolving present. But the clues she discovers seem only to lead her deeper into her past, to another unsolved disappearance: her sister, Sukey, who vanished shortly after World War II.As vivid memories of a tragedy that occurred more fifty years ago come flooding back, Maud discovers new momentum in her search for her friend. Could the mystery of Sukey's disappearance hold the key to finding Elizabeth?

Emma Healey follows the success of her #1 internationally bestselling debut novel Elizabeth Is Missing, winner of the Costa First Novel Award, with this beautiful, thought-provoking, and psychologically complex tale that affirms her status as one of the most inventive and original literary novelists today.Jen and Hugh Maddox have just survived every parent's worst nightmare.Relieved, but still terrified, they sit by the hospital bedside of their fifteen-year-old daughter, Lana, who was found bloodied, bruised, and disoriented after going missing for four days during a mother-daughter vacation in the country. As Lana lies mute in the bed, unwilling or unable to articulate what happened to her during that period, the national media speculates wildly and Jen and Hugh try to answer many questions.Where was Lana? How did she get hurt? Was the teenage boy who befriended her involved? How did she survive outside for all those days? Even when she returns to the family home and her school routine, Lana only provides the same frustrating answer over and over: "I can't remember."For years, Jen had tried to soothe the depressive demons plaguing her younger child, and had always dreaded the worst. Now she has hope--the family has gone through hell and come out the other side. But Jen cannot let go of her need to find the truth. Without telling Hugh or their pregnant older daughter Meg, Jen sets off to retrace Lana's steps, a journey that will lead her to a deeper understanding of her youngest daughter, her family, and herself.A wry, poignant, and masterfully drawn story that explores the bonds and duress of family life, the pain of mental illness, and the fraught yet enduring connection between mothers and daughters, Whistle in the Dark is a story of guilt, fear, hope, and love that explores what it means to lose and find ourselves and those we love.

Jen has finally got her daughter home.But why does fifteen-year-old Lana still feel lost?When Lana goes missing for four desperate days and returns refusing to speak of what happened, Jen fears the very worst. She thinks she's failed as a mother, that her daughter is beyond reach and that she must do something - anything - to bring her back.The family returns to London where everyone but Jen seems happy to carry on as normal. Jen's husband Hugh thinks she's going crazy - and their eldest daughter Meg is tired of Lana getting all the attention. But Jen knows Lana has changed, and can't understand why. Does the answer lie in those four missing days? And how can Jen find out?'As gripping as Elizabeth is Missing' Elle'Utterly compelling' Rosamund Lupton '[A] satisfying, cathartic mystery' Jenny Colgan'A compelling modern family drama with witty and wonderful characters. Utter bliss' Nina Stibbe, bestselling author of Love, Nina'Intriguing and entertaining' Observer

THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE MAJOR BBC DRAMA STARRING BAFTA AWARD-WINNING ACTRESS GLENDA JACKSON How do you solve a mystery when you can't remember the clues?Maud is forgetful. She makes a cup of tea and doesn't remember to drink it. She goes to the shops and forgets why she went. Sometimes her home is unrecognizable - or her daughter Helen seems a total stranger.But there's one thing Maud is sure of: her friend Elizabeth is missing. The note in her pocket tells her so. And no matter who tells her to stop going on about it, to leave it alone, to shut up, Maud will get to the bottom of it.Because somewhere in Maud's damaged mind lies the answer to an unsolved seventy-year-old mystery. One everyone has forgotten about.Everyone, except Maud . . .'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 will stir and shake you: the most likeably unreliable of narrators, real mystery at its compassionate core...' Emma Donoghue, author of Room'Resembling a version of Memento written by Alan Bennett' Daily Telegraph'One of those mythical beasts, the book you cannot put down' Jonathan Coe, author of The Rotters Club'Every bit as compelling as the frenzied hype suggests. Gripping, haunting' Observer

In this darkly riveting debut novel, a sophisticated psychological mystery, one woman will stop at nothing to fiFInd her best friend, who seems to have gone missing. . . . Despite Maud's growing anxiety about Elizabeth's welfare, no one takes her concerns seriously--not her frustrated daughter, not her caretakers, not the police, and especially not Elizabeth's mercurial son--because Maud suffers from dementia. But even as her memory disintegrates and she becomes increasingly dependent on the trail of handwritten notes she leaves for herself in her pockets and around her house, Maud cannot forget her best friend. Armed with only an overwhelming feeling that Elizabeth needs her help, Maud resolves to discover the truth--no matter what it takes.As this singular obsession forms a cornerstone of Maud's rapidly dissolving present, the clues she uncovers lead her deeper into her past, to another unsolved disappearance: that of her sister, Sukey, who vanished shortly after World War II. As vivid memories of a tragedy that occurred more than fifty years ago come flooding back, Maud's search for Elizabeth develops a frantic momentum. Whom can she trust? Can she trust herself?A page-turning novel of suspense, Elizabeth Is Missing also hauntingly reminds us that we are all at the mercy of our memory. Always compelling, often poignant, and at times even blackly witty, this is an absolutely unforgettable novel.

Launching off from subjects as varied as Tinder and animal testing, Emma Healey’s provocative collection of prose poems explores the urgent themes of feminism, mental illness, sexuality, artistic practice, alienation, connection, technology, and time.In Stereoblind, no single thing is ever perceived in just one way. Shot through with asymmetry and misconception, the prose poems in Emma Healey’s second collection describe a world that’s anxious and skewed, but still somehow familiar — where the past, present, and future overlap, facts are not always true, borders are not always solid, and events seem to write themselves into being. An on-again, off-again real estate sale nudges a quartet of millennial renters into an alternate universe of multiplying signs and wonders; an art show at Ontario Place may or may not be as strange and complex (or even as “real”) as described; the collusion of a hangover and a blizzard carry our narrator on a trancelike odyssey through Bed Bath &Beyond. Using a diverse range of subjects — from pharmaceutical research testing to Tinder — to form an inventory of ontological disturbance, Healey delves into moments when the differences between things disappear, and life exceeds its limits.

FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ELIZABETH IS MISSING'Taut, compulsive, and unsettling ... It had me holding my breath until the final, brilliant end' JENNIE GODFREY'SWEAT will keep you guessing until the very last page' VOGUE WILLIAMS'Will have you glued to the story through every twist and turn. I absolutely loved it!' KATE HAMER'SWEAT is like nothing I've ever read before. So addictive it made me miss a tube stop, so unsettling it made me think twice about going to the gym!' SARA COLLINS'An inspired set-up. A clever dynamic that paves the way for a cat-and-mouse thriller. Propulsive.' THE SUNDAY TIMES'A maze-like game of revenge. Unsettling. Blends a critique of wellness culture with a slow-burn feminist thriller.' THE OBSERVER'If you spend all of January trying to avoid diet culture, then you need to read this book.' COSMOPOLITANFinally, this felt like revenge.All Liam ever wanted was to help Cassie reach her full potential; to push her body to new extremes. Exercise, determination, being the optimum versions of themselves together forever. And Liam always knew what was best.Nothing could break their intense love for one another, not Liam’s obsessive desire for physical perfection or his relentless control of every aspect of Cassie’s life. Until the day he pushes Cassie far beyond her limits, and she walks out of their flat and away from their toxic relationship for good.Two years on and Cassie is stronger, fitter, healthier than ever before. And then she sees him – Liam – those green eyes, those stirring muscles. Something inside her flips.But she holds the power now.It’s Liam’s turn to sweat.***PRAISE FOR EMMA HEALEY'S ELIZABETH IS MISSING‘Every bit as compelling as the frenzied hype suggests. Gripping, haunting’OBSERVER‘A riveting psychological thriller’STYLIST‘Utterly compelling’ROSAMUND LUPTON‘Will stir and shake you: the most likeably unreliable of narrators,real mystery at its compassionate core’EMMA DONOGHUE‘A thrillingly assured, haunting and unsettling novel, I read it at a gulp’DEBORAH MOGGACH***READER REVIEWS***'I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys a tense read''Different from anything I have read before''What a book!''So compelling''A dark, slickly written tale''I couldn't put this book down'

FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ELIZABETH IS MISSINGAll Liam ever wanted was to help Cassie reach her full potential; to push her body to new extremes. Exercise, determination, being the optimum versions of themselves together forever. And Liam always knew what was best.Nothing could break their intense love for one another, not Liam's obsessive desire for physical perfection or his relentless control of every aspect of Cassie's life. Until the day he pushes Cassie far beyond her limits, and she walks out of their flat and away from their toxic relationship for good.Two years on and Cassie is stronger, fitter, healthier than ever before. And then she sees him - Liam - those green eyes, those stirring muscles. Something inside her flips.But she holds the power now.It's Liam's turn to sweat.***PRAISE FOR EMMA HEALEY'S ELIZABETH IS MISSING'Every bit as compelling as the frenzied hype suggests. Gripping, haunting'OBSERVER'A riveting psychological thriller'STYLIST'Utterly compelling'ROSAMUND LUPTON'Will stir and shake you: the most likeably unreliable of narrators,real mystery at its compassionate core'EMMA DONOGHUE'A thrillingly assured, haunting and unsettling novel, I read it at a gulp'DEBORAH MOGGACH

Emma Healey follows the success of her #1 internationally bestselling debut novel Elizabeth Is Missing, winner of the Costa First Novel Award, with this beautiful, thought-provoking, and psychologically complex tale that affirms her status as one of the most inventive and original literary novelists today.Jen and Hugh Maddox have just survived every parent's worst nightmare.Relieved, but still terrified, they sit by the hospital bedside of their fifteen-year-old daughter, Lana, who was found bloodied, bruised, and disoriented after going missing for four days during a mother-daughter vacation in the country. As Lana lies mute in the bed, unwilling or unable to articulate what happened to her during that period, the national media speculates wildly and Jen and Hugh try to answer many questions.Where was Lana? How did she get hurt? Was the teenage boy who befriended her involved? How did she survive outside for all those days? Even when she returns to the family home and her school routine, Lana only provides the same frustrating answer over and over: I can't remember.For years, Jen had tried to soothe the depressive demons plaguing her younger child, and had always dreaded the worst. Now she has hope--the family has gone through hell and come out the other side. But Jen cannot let go of her need to find the truth. Without telling Hugh or their pregnant older daughter Meg, Jen sets off to retrace Lana's steps, a journey that will lead her to a deeper understanding of her youngest daughter, her family, and herself.A wry, poignant, and masterfully drawn story that explores the bonds and duress of family life, the pain of mental illness, and the fraught yet enduring connection between mothers and daughters, Whistle in the Dark is a story of guilt, fear, hope, and love that explores what it means to lose and find ourselves and those we love.

FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR'An inspired set-up. A clever dynamic that paves the way for a cat-and-mouse thriller. Propulsive.' SUNDAY TIMES'A maze-like game of revenge. Unsettling. Blends a critique of wellness culture with a slow-burn feminist thriller.' OBSERVER'If you spend all of January trying to avoid diet culture, then you need to read this book.' COSMOPOLITANAll Liam ever wanted was to help Cassie reach her full potential; to push her body to new extremes. Exercise, determination, being the optimum versions of themselves. Together forever.And Liam always knew what was best.Nothing could break their intense love for one another, not Liam's obsessive desire for physical perfection or his relentless control of every aspect of Cassie's life.Until the day he pushed Cassie far beyond her limits, and she walked out of their flat and away from their toxic relationship for good.Two years on and Cassie is stronger, fitter, healthier than ever before. And then she sees him - Liam - those green eyes, those stirring muscles. Something inside her flips.But she holds the power now. It's Liam's turn to sweat.'Will have you glued to the story through every twist and turn. I absolutely adored it!' KATE HAMER, bestselling author of The Girl in the Read Coat'Sweat is like nothing I've ever read before. So addictive it made me miss a tube stop, so unsettling it made me think twice about going to the gym!' SARA COLLINS, author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton'Taut, compulsive, and unsettling ... It had me holding my breath until the final, brilliant end' JENNIE GODFREY, No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The List of Suspicious Things

Maud har blitt glemsom. Hun fortsetter å kjøpe ferskener selv om skapet er fullt. Hun glemmer stadig å drikke koppene med te hun gjør i stand, og hun skriver lapper og notater for å minne seg selv på ting. Men Maud er fast bestemt på å finne ut hva som har skjedd med venninnen, Elizabeth, og hva det har å gjøre med den uoppklarte forsvinningen av hennes søster Sukey, mange år tilbake, like etter krigen. Hør forfatteren fortelle om boken på Cappelen Damms Nett-TV.

Jens femten år gamle datter forsvinner på en ferie, og er savnet i fire pinefulle dager. Da Lana blir funnet, uskadd, men forkommen, tror alle at det verste er over. Lana nekter å fortelle noen hva som skjedde, og politiet mener saken kan avsluttes. Men da den en gang så glade, kjærlige familien kommer tilbake til London, begynner hverdagslivet å rakne. Lana oppfører seg rart: hun nekter å gå på skolen og sover med lyset på.Sakte, men sikkert bli datteren som en fremmed. Jen er sikker på at svaret ligger i de fire dagene hun var borte. Men vil Lana noen gang avsløre hva som skjedde?

En lika gripande som spännande roman om en mors kamp för att nå fram till sin deprimerade dotter, av författaren till den kritikerrosade ”Elizabeth är försvunnen”.Under en resa med sin mor Jen, försvinner femtonåriga Lana spårlöst. Några dagar senare hittas hon på landsbygden, nerkyld med sår över kroppen och blöta kläder. Hon hävdar att hon inte minns vad som hänt henne, men Jen misstänker att hennes dotter döljer något. Hur mycket de än frågar så vägrar Lana att prata, och polisen anser att fallet är avslutat. Lana blir alltmer sluten, vägrar gå till skolan och insisterar på att sova med tänd lampa. Jen kan inte släppa sin jakt på sanningen, så hon ger sig ut för att försöka gå i dotterns fotspår – en resa som förändrar hennes liv.