Emma Healey – författare

Emma Healey follows the success of her #1 internationally bestselling debut novel Elizabeth Is Missing, winner of the Costa First Novel Award, with this beautiful, thought-provoking, and psychologically complex tale that affirms her status as one of the most inventive and original literary novelists today.

Jen and Hugh Maddox have just survived every parent’s worst nightmare.

Relieved, but still terrified, they sit by the hospital bedside of their fifteen-year-old daughter, Lana, who was found bloodied, bruised, and disoriented after going missing for four days during a mother-daughter vacation in the country. As Lana lies mute in the bed, unwilling or unable to articulate what happened to her during that period, the national media speculates wildly and Jen and Hugh try to answer many questions.

Where was Lana? How did she get hurt? Was the teenage boy who befriended her involved? How did she survive outside for all those days? Even when she returns to the family home and her school routine, Lana only provides the same frustrating answer over and over: "I can’t remember."

For years, Jen had tried to soothe the depressive demons plaguing her younger child, and had always dreaded the worst. Now she has hope—the family has gone through hell and come out the other side. But Jen cannot let go of her need to find the truth. Without telling Hugh or their pregnant older daughter Meg, Jen sets off to retrace Lana’s steps, a journey that will lead her to a deeper understanding of her youngest daughter, her family, and herself.

A wry, poignant, and masterfully drawn story that explores the bonds and duress of family life, the pain of mental illness, and the fraught yet enduring connection between mothers and daughters, Whistle in the Dark is a story of guilt, fear, hope, and love that explores what it means to lose and find ourselves and those we love.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Whistle in the Dark by Emma Healey, read by Julia Deakin and Laura Aikman.In the award-winning Elizabeth is Missing debut novelist Emma Healey explored grandmother Maud''s attempt to solve a 70-year-old mystery as she succumbed to dementia. Now, in her dazzling follow-up Whistle in the Dark, we meet Jen, mother to 15-year-old Lana - who has just been found after going missing for four desperate days. Lana can''t talk about the missing days. As her daughter''s life falls apart, Jen turns detective to discover what happened . . .How do you rescue someone who has already been found? Jen''s fifteen-year-old daughter goes missing for four agonizing days. When Lana is found, unharmed, in the middle of the desolate countryside, everyone thinks the worst is over. But Lana refuses to tell anyone what happened, and the police think the case is closed. The once-happy, loving family returns to London, where things start to fall apart. Lana begins acting strangely: refusing to go to school, and sleeping with the light on.With her daughter increasingly becoming a stranger, Jen is sure the answer lies in those four missing days. But will Lana ever reveal what happened?''A psychological thriller that meshes the homely with the Gothic'' Literary Review''Oozing with tension and written with captivating brilliance'' Heat''As gripping as its predecessor'' Elle''Gripping, deeply affecting'' Irish Times

FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ELIZABETH IS MISSINGAVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOWAll Liam ever wanted was to help Cassie reach her full potential; to push her body to new extremes. Exercise, determination, being the optimum versions of themselves together forever. And Liam always knew what was best.Nothing could break their intense love for one another, not Liam's obsessive desire for physical perfection or his relentless control of every aspect of Cassie's life. Until the day he pushes Cassie far beyond her limits, and she walks out of their flat and away from their toxic relationship for good.Two years on and Cassie is stronger, fitter, healthier than ever before. And then she sees him - Liam - those green eyes, those stirring muscles. Something inside her flips.But she holds the power now.It's Liam's turn to sweat.***PRAISE FOR EMMA HEALEY'S ELIZABETH IS MISSING'Every bit as compelling as the frenzied hype suggests. Gripping, haunting'OBSERVER'A riveting psychological thriller'STYLIST'Utterly compelling'ROSAMUND LUPTON'Will stir and shake you: the most likeably unreliable of narrators,real mystery at its compassionate core'EMMA DONOGHUE'A thrillingly assured, haunting and unsettling novel, I read it at a gulp'DEBORAH MOGGACH

Brought to you by Penguin.FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ELIZABETH IS MISSINGAll Liam ever wanted was to help Cassie reach her full potential; to push her body to new extremes. Exercise, determination, being the optimum versions of themselves together forever. And Liam always knew what was best.Nothing could break their intense love for one another, not Liam’s obsessive desire for physical perfection or his relentless control of every aspect of Cassie’s life. Until the day he pushes Cassie far beyond her limits, and she walks out of their flat and away from their toxic relationship for good.Two years on and Cassie is stronger, fitter, healthier than ever before. And then she sees him – Liam – those green eyes, those stirring muscles. Something inside her flips.But she holds the power now.It’s Liam’s turn to sweat.PRAISE FOR EMMA HEALEY''S ELIZABETH IS MISSING‘Every bit as compelling as the frenzied hype suggests. Gripping, haunting’OBSERVER‘A riveting psychological thriller’STYLIST‘Utterly compelling’ROSAMUND LUPTON‘Will stir and shake you: the most likeably unreliable of narrators,real mystery at its compassionate core’EMMA DONOGHUE‘A thrillingly assured, haunting and unsettling novel, I read it at a gulp’DEBORAH MOGGACH© Emma Healey 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

Jen și Hugh Maddox tocmai au supraviețuit celui mai cumplit coșmar al oricărui părinte. Ușurați, dar încă îngroziți, stau lângă patul de spital al fiicei lor în vârstă de cincisprezece ani, Lana, care a fost găsită dezorientată, plină de sânge și de vânătăi, după ce a dispărut patru zile în timpul unei vacanțe petrecute cu mama ei într-o tabără de pictură. În timp ce Lana stă mută în pat, fără să vrea sau fără să poată să spună ce i s-a întâmplat în acea perioadă, presa face tot felul de speculații, iar Jen și Hugh încearcă să răspundă la multe întrebări. Unde a fost Lana? Cum s-a rănit? A fost implicat adolescentul care s-a împrietenit cu ea? Cum a supraviețuit în toate acele zile? Chiar și atunci când se întoarce în casa familiei și la rutina școlară, Lana oferă un singur răspuns frustrant: „Nu-mi amintesc“.O poveste crudă, tulburătoare și scrisă cu măiestrie, care explorează legătura mamă–fiică și constrângerile vieții de familie, durerea provocată de boala mintală, o poveste despre vinovăție, frică, speranță și iubire care ne arată ce înseamnă să-i pierdem, dar și să-i regăsim pe cei pe care îi iubim.Healey compune acest roman din mai multe secțiuni, fiecare cu titlul ei, secțiuni care au de la câteva rânduri până la câteva pagini, o tehnică ce face narațiunea să progreseze. Apelând la flashbackuri și eliminând în același timp detalii inutile, autoarea construiește suspansul în mod natural. Rezultatul este panorama unei familii, luminată de dragoste, cu accentul pe legătura dintre mamă și fiică.Booklist

En lika gripande som spännande roman om en mors kamp för att nå fram till sin deprimerade dotter, av författaren till den kritikerrosade ”Elizabeth är försvunnen”.

Under en resa med sin mor Jen, försvinner femtonåriga Lana spårlöst. Några dagar senare hittas hon på landsbygden, nerkyld med sår över kroppen och blöta kläder. Hon hävdar att hon inte minns vad som hänt henne, men Jen misstänker att hennes dotter döljer något. Hur mycket de än frågar så vägrar Lana att prata, och polisen anser att fallet är avslutat. Lana blir alltmer sluten, vägrar gå till skolan och insisterar på att sova med tänd lampa. Jen kan inte släppa sin jakt på sanningen, så hon ger sig ut för att försöka gå i dotterns fotspår – en resa som förändrar hennes liv.

En lika gripande som spännande roman om en mors kamp för att nå fram till sin deprimerade dotter, av författaren till den kritikerrosade ”Elizabeth är försvunnen”.

Under en resa med sin mor Jen, försvinner femtonåriga Lana spårlöst. Några dagar senare hittas hon på landsbygden, nerkyld med sår över kroppen och blöta kläder. Hon hävdar att hon inte minns vad som hänt henne, men Jen misstänker att hennes dotter döljer något. Hur mycket de än frågar så vägrar Lana att prata, och polisen anser att fallet är avslutat. Lana blir alltmer sluten, vägrar gå till skolan och insisterar på att sova med tänd lampa. Jen kan inte släppa sin jakt på sanningen, så hon ger sig ut för att försöka gå i dotterns fotspår – en resa som förändrar hennes liv.