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BODIES OF LIGHT
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| By: |
Sarah Moss |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1847089089 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781847089083 |
| Publisher: |
GRANTA BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
3 April, 2014 |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Description: |
From the acclaimed author of Night Waking comes this beautiful and nuanced historical novel about maternal failures, sibling affection and the everyday savagery of family |
| Synopsis: |
Bodies of Light is a deeply poignant tale of a psychologically tumultuous nineteenth century upbringing set in the atmospheric world of Pre-Raphaelitism and the early suffrage movement. Ally (older sister of May in Night Waking), is intelligent, studious and engaged in an eternal - and losing - battle to gain her mother's approval and affection. Her mother, Elizabeth, is a religious zealot, keener on feeding the poor and saving prostitutes than on embracing the challenges of motherhood. Even when Ally wins a scholarship and is accepted as one of the first female students to read medicine in London, it still doesn't seem good enough. The first in a two-book sequence, Bodies of Light will propel Sarah Moss into the upper echelons of British novelists. It is a triumphant piece of historical fiction and a profoundly moving master class in characterisation. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Granta Books |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for Wellcome Trust Book Prize 2015 |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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