Author

Publication

2014 - Granta, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

77,750 words, Guess

Page Count

311 pages

Identifiers

and 4 more
  • ISBN-101847089089
  • Library of Congress Control Number2013456568
  • OCLC Control Number869789097
  • Better World Books9781847089168

Classifications

  • LCCPR6113.O88 B63 2014
  • LCCPR6113.O88

Description

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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Other Editions

  • Bodies of lightGranta2014-01-01

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