A feature-length TV adaptation of Elizabeth Is Missing, the debut novel by UEA alumna Emma Healey, is to be broadcast on BBC1 this evening, starring Glenda Jackson (pictured). The novel was published in 2014 and was the winner of the Costa First Novel Award, a Betty Trask Award, and Italy’s Premio Salerno Libro D’Europa prize. It was also shortlisted for the Jarrold New Writing Award, the Independent Booksellers Week Awards, the Desmond Elliott Prize, The Times Breakthrough Award, and the Blackwell’s Book of the Year Award, and was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. Emma graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2011, and published her second novel, Whistle In The Dark, in 2018.
Elizabeth Is Missing on BBC1
