"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 ...
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"Using a wide variety of subjects (from Tinder to pharmaceutical research testing methods) as jumping-off points, Emma Healey's provocative new collection of prose poems, Forced Swim Test, explores the urgent themes of feminism, mental illness, sexuality, artistic practice, alien...
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.
"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-dau...
Emma Healey just wants to be a writer. Through the stories of several very odd jobs, each related to - but also achingly far from - the job she really wants, poet and essayist Emma Healey creates a unique snapshot of the gig economy that is also a timeless meditation on identity,...
"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 ...
"A wry, poignant, and masterful novel 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...
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 o...
WINNER 2014 - Costa Book Awards-First Novel An internationally heralded debut novel of extraordinary warmth, insight and humanity that will appeal to readers who loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Still Alice : Elizabeth Is Missing is at once a page-turning my...
"A fascinating collection of concise stories about twenty-one courageous, independent, and diverse women who shaped the history of Vancouver Island. From the lush rainforest of Clayoquot Sound to the bustling city streets of Victoria, Vancouver Island has been home to an astoundi...
Winner of BEST HORROR NOVEL (August Derleth Award) at British Fantasy Awards 2016 For generations the Villarcas have died mysteriously, and young. Now Iris and her father will finally understand why. . . At the turn of England's century, as the wind whistles in the lonely ha...