Elizabeth Is Missing

In this darkly captivating debut novel, an elderly woman suffering from dementia sets out on a desperate search for her best friend, whom she believes has vanished. Her search will take her back decades, with devastating results. It is a sophisticated psychological mystery that also serves as a heartbreakingly honest meditation on memory, identity, and aging.

The elderly grandma Maud is gradually losing her memory and her sense of normalcy. Nevertheless, she can't let go of Elizabeth, her closest friend, whom she believes to be lost and in grave danger.

However, nobody is going to pay attention to Maud—not her irritated daughter Helen, not her caregivers, nor the authorities, and certainly not Elizabeth's fickle son Peter. Equipped with personal messages she leaves for herself and a strong sense that Elizabeth needs her assistance, Maud makes the decision to find out the truth and rescue her dear friend.

This one-of-a-kind fixation is the foundation of Maud's quickly vanishing present. However, it seems that the hints she finds will only take her further back in time to another unresolved disappearance: her sister Sukey, who disappeared just after World War II.

Maud finds fresh impetus in her quest for her buddy when vivid recollections of a tragedy that transpired over fifty years ago resurface. Could the solution to Sukey's disappearance be the key to Elizabeth's whereabouts?