Elizabeth Is MissingElizabeth Is Missing

Novel about a woman in the grips of dementia is both a moving meditation on memory and an engrossing mystery. "Elizabeth is missing": Maud writes a note to tell herself not to give up on her friend, whose house sits mysteriously empty down the street from her own. She can't understand why her daughter or her carer won't help. Her ongoing search for Elizabeth triggers an old and powerful memory of the unsolved disappearance of her own beloved sister. Maud begins to see reminders of and clues to her sister's disappearance everywhere.