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(0)Emma Healey
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this darkly riveting debut novel-a sophisticated psychological mystery that is also an heartbreakingly honest meditation on memory, identity, and aging-an elderly woman descending into dementia embarks on a desperate quest to find the best friend she believes has disappeared, and her search for the truth will go back decades and have shattering consequences. Maud, an aging grandmother, is slowly losing her memory-and her grip on everyday life....
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Jen's 15-year-old daughter goes missing for four agonizing days. When Lana is found, unharmed, in the middle of the desolate countryside, everyone thinks the worst is over. But Lana refuses to tell anyone what happened, and the police draw a blank. The once-happy, loving family return to London, where things start to fall apart. Lana begins acting strangely, refusing to go to school and sleeping with the light on. As Lana stays stubbornly silent,...
Author
Publisher
Random House Canada
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Maud is convinced something horrible happened to her best friend, Elizabeth, but in her search discovers it may be entwined with another disappearance from her childhood. The answers seem within her grasp, but the onset of dementia keeps pulling them through her fingers.