Shortlisted for the 2015 Wellcome Book Prize
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.
Autor |
Sarah Moss |
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Vydavateľ |
Granta Books |
Jazyk | anglický |
Väzba | mäkká |
Počet strán | 320 |
Formát | 12.9 x 19.8 cm |
EAN | 9781847089090 |
Rok vydania | 2015 |
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