Emma Healey

1985–

Emma Healey is a British novelist from London. After a foundation year at Central Saint Martins she took a degree in book arts at the London College of Communication, worked in libraries, bookshops, galleries and universities, and completed an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia in 2011. Her debut, Elizabeth Is Missing (2014), about a woman with dementia, won the Costa First Novel Award and received a Betty Trask Award in 2015; it was adapted for television in 2019. Her later novels are Whistle in the Dark (2018) and Sweat (2025). She lives in Norwich.

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