Elizabeth is Missing voted favourite Richard and Judy Spring title

Emma Healey’s début novel Elizabeth is Missing (Penguin) has been voted as the best title in Richard and Judy’s Spring 2015 Book Club. Readers voted for their favourite book from the book club’s eight Spring picks on the W H Smith website. The second most-voted-for title was The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton (Picador), with Tony Parsons’ The Murder Bag (Arrow) coming in third. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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