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Violence
Barely any
No significant violence; a disappearance is at the center
Language
None
Clean language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Profound psychological weight around dementia, memory loss, and the terror of being unable to trust your own mind
What this book is about
Maud keeps forgetting things — but she can't forget that her friend Elizabeth has disappeared, and no one seems concerned. As Maud's dementia deepens, she begins connecting Elizabeth's disappearance to a decades-old family mystery. Emma Healey's debut is a remarkable psychological mystery told through a narrator whose unreliability is both the novel's limitation and its heart.
Notes for sensitive readers
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Dementia as narrative perspective
Psychological distress of cognitive decline
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