Elizabeth Is Missing

Part mystery, part heartbreaking, a look at what it means to lose your grip on reality. The story follows Maud, an elderly woman with dementia, who’s convinced her best friend, Elizabeth, has vanished. Her daughter and caretakers brush it off as confusion, but Maud won’t let it go—she’s sure something is wrong.

As Maud tries to piece things together, her slipping memory pulls her back into the past, to another disappearance that still haunts her—her sister Sukey’s, decades earlier. The two mysteries start to tangle, and what might have felt like a simple story becomes something much deeper—a study of memory, guilt, and love that refuses to fade.

Emma Healey captures Maud’s voice beautifully. It’s sometimes funny, disorienting, often heartbreaking, and always real. Through Maud’s eyes, we feel both the fog of dementia and the fierce determination of someone who still knows something isn’t right, even if she can’t remember why.