A review by fictionvictim
Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey

Did not finish book.
 DNF @ 16%
Being so close to dementia. I don't take it lightly. I'm highly disappointed that this is considered "fun". Will not be reading from this author again. This book is "reliving the same day over and over to figure out the mystery BUT it's really dementia."

A gentle story about an 82-year-old woman with dementia might seem an unlikely hit, but Emma Healey’s first novel was such a success it was dubbed “Gone Gran”. A little bit funny, a little bit sad, Elizabeth Is Missing won the 2014 Costa first novel award and is being adapted for TV.
when she had the idea for Elizabeth Is Missing. Her grandmother, who was in the early stages of dementia, declared that her friend was missing; “it was all solved within a few minutes, but it highlighted her situation,” she recalls.

“So it felt right to imagine it from her point of view, in the same way as I had imagined what it would have been like for my grandmother when I was writing about dementia.”

-The Guardian, Interview Emma Healey: ‘Mills & Boon saved my life’ Lisa Allardice



You clearly have no clue what it is like. 
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