Emma Constance Healey is a British novelist. Her debut novel, Elizabeth Is Missing (2014) won the annual Costa Book Award for First Novel.
Life and career
Born in London, Healey completed a foundation year at Central Saint Martins before graduating with a BA in Book Arts and Crafts from the London College of Communication. She graduated from the University of East Anglia with an MA in creative writing (prose fiction) in 2011. Her first novel was adapted for television in 2019, Elizabeth Is Missing.
Awards YearTitleAwardCategoryResult2014Elizabeth Is MissingBritish Book AwardNew WriterCosta Book AwardFirst NovelWaverton Good Read Award—2015Authors' Club First Novel Award—Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction—Betty Trask Prize and AwardsBetty Trask AwardDesmond Elliott Prize—Independent Booksellers' Book PrizeAdult2016International Dublin Literary Award—
Works 2014: Elizabeth Is Missing 2018: Whistle in the Dark 2025: Sweat
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