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I found this a difficult read. I understand that it was written to mimic some of the mental difficulties the main character was having, but I'm not sure I understood what happened when I finished the book - particularly the 'whodunnit' storyline.
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A remarkable, well-studied, portrayal of dementia for a young author. While Maud's daughter Helen frets over her mother's loss of memory, Elizabeth is only mildly disconcerted by it. She might forget whether she had made her tea, or what she set out to buy from the store, but one thing she's convinced of, it's that her friend Elizabeth is missing. Undeterred by her diminished capacity and indifferent to Helen's concerns, Maud is driven by her own certainty, determined to find out what happened t
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Nov 10, 2014
Daisy
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Keeley
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