Elizabeth Is Missing

Elizabeth Is Missing

2014 • 323 pages

Ratings54

Average rating3.7

15

I feel rather drab and shy for a few minutes. But then I remember that I am old and nobody is looking at me

Deeply moving story about 80yr old Maud who is suffering from dementia and can't find her friend Elizabeth. Elizabeth is Missing just like her sister Sukey who went missing in 1949.

For the most part I thought this was incredible. Maud's memory slips between then and now are brilliantly done and you really feal the frustration and anger building up in Maud when she is struggling to work things out. I did find the “Elizabeth Is Missing” part of the story a little bit drawn out. I'm pretty sure someone would have said SOMETHING at some point it just irked me a little bit.

October 24, 2024