Emma Healey

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.

Elizabeth Is Missing

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.

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Whistle in the Dark

A witty, soulful memoir about trying to make a living under the burden of unwelcome truths, from the author of the essay that helped ignite #MeToo in Canada. Through the stories of several very odd jobs, each related to the job she really wants--to be a writer--poet and essayist Emma Healey wrestles with identity, work and language, encountering obstacle after obstacle to her ambitions, including doubt whether her desire to make a living as a writer even makes sense. As a teenager, she is introduced by her actor/playwright mother to the role of "standardized patient"--a sort of living training dummy for medical students. As a recent university graduate, she writes software manuals for the world's leading producer of online pornography, masters the art of search engine optimization for a marketing firm run out of the owner's bedroom, and narrowly escapes death as a research assistant for a television drama. Along the way she navigates dating apps, tumultuous relationships and difficult misadventures, all of which she brings to bear on the evolution of a voice that she is slowly learning to trust. For a writer trying to pay the bills, life can be a work in progress.

A Memoir

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EINE ANRÜHRENDE GESCHICHTE ÜBER VERLUST UND VERGESSEN - EMMA HEALEY TRIFFT MITTEN INS HERZ! Wie würden Sie sich fühlen, wenn Ihnen keiner mehr glaubt? Und Sie nicht mehr sicher sind, ob Sie sich selbst noch glauben können? Genauso ergeht es Maud, die an Alzheimer leidet und die ihre Freundin vermisst. In diesem faszinierenden Roman machen wir uns gemeinsam mit Maud auf die Suche nach der verschwundenen Elizabeth und erleben dabei hautnah, wie hilflos und verletzlich Maud sich selbst und ihrer Umwelt gegenübersteht. Mit überwältigender Intensität und Emotionalität schafft es die erst 28-jährige Autorin, eine völlig neue Sicht auf Alter und Alzheimer zu eröffnen.

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A witty, soulful memoir about trying to make a living under the burden of unwelcome truths, from the author of the essay that helped ignite #MeToo in Canada. Through the stories of several very odd jobs, each related to the job she really wants—to be a writer—poet and essayist Emma Healey wrestles with identity, work and language, encountering obstacle after obstacle to her ambitions, including doubt whether her desire to make a living as a writer even makes sense. As a teenager, she is introduced by her actor/playwright mother to the role of "standardized patient"—a sort of living training dummy for medical students. As a recent university graduate, she writes software manuals for the world's leading producer of online pornography, masters the art of search engine optimization for a marketing firm run out of the owner’s bedroom, and narrowly escapes death as a research assistant for a television drama. Along the way she navigates dating apps, tumultuous relationships and difficult misadventures, all of which she brings to bear on the evolution of a voice that she is slowly learning to trust. For a writer trying to pay the bills, life can be a work in progress.

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Stereoblind

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Elizabeth är försvunnen (Ukrainska).

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 moments when the differences between things disappear, and life exceeds its limits.

Residing on the border between poetry and prose, Emma Healey masterfully navigates the tension and balance between the two forms. Her writing examines the animate qualities of seemingly inanimate things and explores personal relationships, collective and individual human experiences, as they are distilled through our encounters with such things as the CBC, chain bookstores, the contents of a kitchen, or the expanse of a whole city. Begin With the End in Mind tests the capabilities of the prose poem--the specific rhythmic, lyrical, and syntactic possibilities of the form, and the opportunities for play, renegotiating the more traditional/technical elements of lyric and line that are afforded the prose poet.

Begin with the End in Mind

Jen și Hugh Maddox tocmai au supraviețuit celui mai cumplit coșmar al oricărui părinte. Ușurați, dar încă îngroziți, stau lângă patul de spital al fiicei lor în vârstă de cincisprezece ani, Lana, care a fost găsită dezorientată, plină de sânge și de vânătăi, după ce a dispărut patru zile în timpul unei vacanțe petrecute cu mama ei într-o tabără de pictură. În timp ce Lana stă mută în pat, fără să vrea sau fără să poată să spună ce i s-a întâmplat în acea perioadă, presa face tot felul de speculații, iar Jen și Hugh încearcă să răspundă la multe întrebări. Unde a fost Lana? Cum s-a rănit? A fost implicat adolescentul care s-a împrietenit cu ea? Cum a supraviețuit în toate acele zile? Chiar și atunci când se întoarce în casa familiei și la rutina școlară, Lana oferă un singur răspuns frustrant: „Nu-mi amintesc“. O poveste crudă, tulburătoare și scrisă cu măiestrie, care explorează legătura mamă–fiică și constrângerile vieții de familie, durerea provocată de boala mintală, o poveste despre vinovăție, frică, speranță și iubire care ne arată ce înseamnă să-i pierdem, dar și să-i regăsim pe cei pe care îi iubim. Healey compune acest roman din mai multe secțiuni, fiecare cu titlul ei, secțiuni care au de la câteva rânduri până la câteva pagini, o tehnică ce face narațiunea să progreseze. Apelând la flashbackuri și eliminând în același timp detalii inutile, autoarea construiește suspansul în mod natural. Rezultatul este panorama unei familii, luminată de dragoste, cu accentul pe legătura dintre mamă și fiică. Booklist

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Nora Roberts

Nathalie Pagie

In deze bundel zitten drie psychoglogische thrillers, geschreven door vrouwen. Elin moet in De toneelclub voor eens en altijd afrekenen met haar verleden. Maud is in Ze is zoek vastbesloten te ontdekken wat er met haar vriendin Elizabeth is gebeurd en wat het verband is met het raadsel van de nooit opgeloste verdwijning van haar zusje Sukey. Reece weet in Een nieuw begin zeker dat ze getuige is geweest van een moord. Maar waar is dan het lichaam, en waarom wil niemand haar geloven? In deze bundel zijn de volgende titels opgenomen: Emma Healy - Ze is zoek Nathalie Pagie - De toneelclub Nora Roberts - Een nieuw begin

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