THE BIRDICT

💜 Maud. I love Maud. She is irresistibly endearing and made a great narrator, both because of her personality and her unreliability.

💚 The plot is masterful and unfolds at just the right pace. Lots of twists and turns in this and I didn't predict the end, which is always fun and increasingly rare.

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SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO...​​

Part psychological thriller, part chat with your favourite granny.

THE BLURB

How do you solve a mystery when you can't remember the clues?

Maud is forgetful. She makes a cup of tea and doesn't remember to drink it. She goes to the shops and forgets why she went. Sometimes her home is unrecognizable - or her daughter Helen seems a total stranger. But there's one thing Maud is sure of: her friend Elizabeth is missing. The note in her pocket tells her so. And no matter who tells her to stop going on about it, to leave it alone, to shut up, Maud will get to the bottom of it. Because somewhere in Maud's damaged mind lies the answer to an unsolved seventy-year-old mystery. One everyone has forgotten about. Everyone, except Maud....