Elisabeth is missing

By Emma Healey
This is a mystery with a twist.  The story is told by an eighty two year old narrator suffering with dementia and called Maud. Her current life is full of forgotten words, places, and people. She is convinced her friend Elizabeth is missing and because we only ever hear her confused version of the story it takes a long time to solve the mystery.
However, Maud's long term memory is crystal clear and in these passages she tells us about the events of 1946 when her sister disappeared never to be found.
The two stories intertwine beautifully and the story is at one time intriguing and at another incredibly sad.
Having said that I am not sure the story worked entirely and I was left a little frustrated with the ending. 8/10