Emma Healey is a British author renowned for her debut novel "Elizabeth is Missing," which won the Costa First Novel Award. She has a background in bookbinding and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. Healey's work is celebrated for its emotional depth and exploration of memory and identity, establishing her as a distinctive voice in contemporary fiction.
I have to write everything down or else I forget it.
It's like when you lose something and you know it's in the house, but you can't find it.
I don't know why it is that memory can play such tricks on you.
I keep remembering people as they were then.
I have to find Elizabeth. I have to find what's happened to her.
I keep being afraid that I've forgotten something important.
I don't know where I'm supposed to be.
I keep thinking I should be doing something.
Nobody's listening to me. Nobody ever listens to me.
That's what you do when you're old, you forget things.
I'm losing time. I've lost hours and I can't remember where they've gone.
I want to go home. I don't like it here.