Author of Elizabeth is Missing

Winner of the Costa First Novel Award

Emma Healey is the author of Elizabeth is Missing, and Whistle in the Dark. Her new novel, Sweat, will be published in January 2025.

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Books

Thought-provoking literature

Emma 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 is due to be published in January 2025. It follows a fitness fanatic whose sense of control is tested when her coercive ex-boyfriend suddenly reappears.

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Next Event

Sweat: A feminist thriller night Tuesday 28 January 2025, 7pm

How about breaking up the wintriest of months with a tale of power and obsession? Emma Healey, author of the much loved Elizabeth is Missing, offers just this.

SWEAT asks how far we'd go to take revenge on someone who wronged us if we were given the chance. Be prepared for a twisty read that will keep your heart pounding with the shadow of deeper questions of power and control close behind.

Please be aware that this book/event deals with themes of body image and control as well as exercise addiction.

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About Emma

Emma 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.

Media
The 25 books we can't wait to read in 2025 CosmopolitanAt Home with Emma Healey Sowerbys At Home Magazine, Winter 2024Hutchinson Heinemann signs ‘pulse-quickening’ novel by award-winning Healey The BooksellerReview: The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright Irish IndependentPodcast: The Failing Writers The Failing Writers PodcastReview: Learned By Heart by Emma Donoghue Irish IndependentReview: Service by Sarah Gilmartin Irish IndependentReview: A Little Unsteadily into Light Irish IndependentMade in Clapham Junction The GuardianEmotionally connected to character Irish TimesLabours of love: Emma Healey, the bestselling author of Elizabeth Is Missing, on her struggle to become a mother Sunday TimesReview: Paradise Lodge by Nina Stibbe The GuardianBy 16, I had already made several plans to end my life The Sunday TimesThe voices in my desk drawer The Sunday TimesReview: The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon The GuardianMy hero: Dorothea Tanning by Emma Healey The GuardianClever Polly and the Stupid Wolf: a feminist Little Red Riding Hood The Guardian