Signs For Lost Children

Author: Sarah Moss

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  • : $33.00 NZD
  • : 9781783781058
  • : Granta Books
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  • : July 2015
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Description

Only weeks into their marriage a young couple embark on a six-month period of separation. Tom Cavendish goes to Japan to build lighthouses and his wife Ally, Doctor Moberley-Cavendish, stays and works at the Truro asylum. As Ally plunges into the institutional politics of mental health, Tom navigates the social and professional nuances of late 19th century Japan. With her unique blend of emotional insight and intellectual profundity, Sarah Moss builds a novel in two parts from Falmouth to Tokyo, two maps of absence; from Manchester to Kyoto, two distinct but conjoined portraits of loneliness and determination. An exquisite continuation of the story of Bodies of Light, Signs for Lost Children will amaze Sarah Moss's many fans.

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From the author of Night Waking, a powerful enquiry into the workings of the human mind and heart, set in the 1880s between Japan and England

Reviews

The award-winning Moss has struck gold again wit her sotry of a separated couple living in two disparate countries. Moss depicts the struggles of each character so clearly with her well-researched and empathetic writing. Rewarding and full of insight.


Elisa, Book Grocer

Author description

SARAH MOSS was educated at Oxford University and is currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Warwick. She is the author of three novels: Cold Earth (Granta 2010), Night Waking (Granta 2012), which was selected for the Fiction Uncovered Award in 2011, and Bodies of Light (Granta 2014); and the co-author of Chocolate: A Global History. She spent 2009-10 as a visiting lecturer at the University of Iceland, and wrote an account of her time there in Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland (Granta 2012), which was shortlisted for the 2013 RSL Ondaatje Prize.