title: Emma Healey
text: # 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
  