Emma Healey
# Emma Healey

Emma Constance Healey is a British novelist. Her debut novel, Elizabeth is Missing (2014) won the annual Costa Book Award, Best 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.

## Awards

* 2014: Costa Book Award for First Novel, winner, Elizabeth is Missing
* 2015: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, longlist, Elizabeth is Missing
* 2015: Betty Trask Award, Elizabeth is Missing

## Works

* 2014: Elizabeth is Missing
* 2018: Whistle in the Dark
