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Emma Healey

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.

Book summaries for books written by Emma Healey

Quotes

I have to write everything down or else I forget it.

Emma Healey

memory

It's like when you lose something and you know it's in the house, but you can't find it.

Emma Healey

loss

I don't know why it is that memory can play such tricks on you.

Emma Healey

memory

I keep remembering people as they were then.

Emma Healey

memory

I have to find Elizabeth. I have to find what's happened to her.

Emma Healey

mystery

I keep being afraid that I've forgotten something important.

Emma Healey

memory

I don't know where I'm supposed to be.

Emma Healey

confusion

I keep thinking I should be doing something.

Emma Healey

anxiety

Nobody's listening to me. Nobody ever listens to me.

Emma Healey

communication

That's what you do when you're old, you forget things.

Emma Healey

aging

I'm losing time. I've lost hours and I can't remember where they've gone.

Emma Healey

memory

I want to go home. I don't like it here.

Emma Healey

discomfort