Author of Elizabeth is Missing
Winner of the Costa First Novel AwardEmma Healey is the author of Elizabeth is Missing (2014), Whistle in the Dark (2018), and Sweat (2025).
More about the authorEmma Healey is the author of Elizabeth is Missing (2014), Whistle in the Dark (2018), and Sweat (2025).
More about the authorEmma Healey’s debut novel, Elizabeth is Missing, tackled dementia through the prism of a missing persons mystery. It sold over a million copies worldwide, won the Costa First Novel Award, and was made into a BBC film starring Glenda Jackson (who won a BAFTA and an International Emmy for her portrayal of Maud).
Emma's second novel Whistle in the Dark, explores the effect teenage depression has on a whole family, especially when the depressed teenager may be keeping a terrible secret.
Sweat follows a fitness fanatic whose sense of control is tested when her coercive ex-boyfriend suddenly reappears.
Emma Healey will be talking about her new novel, Sweat, at the Suffolk Book League, an organisaion which aims to promote, encourage, foster or strengthen by all and every suitable means the habit of reading and the wider and more general distribution of books, by and among all people.
More EventsEmma Healey grew up in London and completed her first degree in bookbinding. She then worked in libraries, bookshops, art galleries, and universities, before studying for the MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She lives in Norwich with her husband, daughter and cat.
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