Emma Healey's message

On our last session of Elizabeth is Missing we felt confused about the ending of the book, so we decided to write to the author on facebook and ask her if she could solve our doubts. After a few months she has replied and this is what she said:

' My feeling was always that Frank killed Sukey, more or less accidentally in a fit of rage, and that Maud is only able to piece this together when she finds the compact nearly seventy years later. But I was interested in playing around with the idea of Maud being guilty and I wanted there to be some ambiguity, and in fact there had to be some ambiguity in the end because of her condition.'

Thank you Emma for replying.