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• Costa Book Award for First Novel (2014)
• Dylan Thomas Prize Nominee for Longlist (2014)
• Desmond Elliott Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2015)
• Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2015)
• Betty Trask Award (2015)
• Specsavers National Book Award Nominee for Books Are My Bag New Writer of the Year; Specsavers Popular Fiction Book of the Year (2014)
• Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Debut Goodreads Author (2014)

A mystery, an unsolved crime and one of the most unforgettable characters since Mark Haddon's Christopher. Meet Maud ...'Elizabeth is missing' reads the note in Maud's pocket in her own handwriting, and the one on the wall.Maud's been getting forgetful. She keeps buying peach slices when she has a cupboard full, forgets to drink the cups of tea she's made and writes notes to remind herself of things. But Maud is determined to discover what has happened to her friend, Elizabeth, and what it has to do with the unsolved disappearance of her sister Sukey, years back, just after the war.A fast-paced mystery, an unforgettable voice: you will laugh and cry but you'll never forget Maud.

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