OE Emma Healey’s superb bestselling 2014 debut novel, Elizabeth is Missing, landed on our TV screens last night as a BBC One adaptation.
The drama was adapted by award-winning screenwriter Andrea Gibb and start two-time Academy Award winner Glenda Jackson in her first TV role in 27 years. Jackson plays Maude, an 80-year-old living with dementia, who sets about trying to solve the mystery of her friend Elizabeth’s disappearance. But nothing is quite what it seems…
Since its publication in 2014 the novel has seen unparalleled success for Emma, who also won the Costa Prize for First Novel. Watch Elizabeth is Missing on BBC One here.