Bodies of light
Moss, Sarah2015
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'Bodies of Light' is a deeply poignant tale of a psychologically tumultuous 19th 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.
Main title:
Bodies of light / Sarah Moss.
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Imprint:
London : Granta, 2015.
Collation:
311 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2014.
ISBN:
9781847089090 (pbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
1815296
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