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26-04-2019, 08:16 AM

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Shortlisted for the Wellcome Prize for Historical Fiction
Award-winning author Sarah Moss's most recent work of historical fiction is aportrait of a young couple's unconventional marriage as it's tested byseparate quests for identity in work and life. Set in the Victorian Age,Signs for Lost Children grapples with central themes of early feminism,mental health reform, and marriage as an imposed institution.
Ally Moberly, a recently qualified doctor, never expected to marry until shemet Tom Cavendish. Only weeks into their marriage, Tom sets out for Japan,leaving Ally as she begins work at the Truro Asylum in Cornwall. Horrified bythe brutal attitudes of male doctors and nurses toward their female patients,Ally plunges into the institutional politics of women's mental health at atime when madness is only just being imagined as treatable. She has to contendwith a longstanding tradition of permanently institutionalizing women who aredeemed difficult, all the while fighting to to be taken seriously as a rarewoman in a profession dominated by men. Tom, an architect, has been employedto oversee the building of Japanese lighthouses. He also has a commission froma wealthy collector to bring back embroideries and woodwork. As he travelsJapan in search of these enchanting objects, he begins to question the valueof the life he left in England. As Ally becomes increasingly absorbed in themoral importance of her work, and Tom pursues his intellectual interests onthe other side of the world, they will return to each other as differentpeople.
With her artful blend of emotional insight and narrative skill, Sarah Mosscreates an entrancing novel sure to draw critical acclaim. From the blusterycoast of Western England to the towns and cities of Japan, she constructsdistinct but conjoined portraits of two remarkable people in a swiftlychanging world.

Review
"Matching exceptionally fine prose with pinpoint sensitivity, Britishnovelist Moss (Bodies of Light, 2014, etc.) delivers a thoughtful account ofone intelligent, sometimes-fragile woman's response to a dark, dynamic era." -- Kirkus Reviews
_ "The richness of Moss's work is astonishing. Few writers demonstrate suchquietly magisterial command of the rocky territories of both the heart andmind."--The Independent
_ "We have in Ally one of the most memorable heroines of recent fiction. Ifthere's one author to take a chance on this year, let it be [Sarah Moss]."-- The Times
_ "In this fine exploration of marriage and the complex minds of 'lostchildren'--that is, all of us--Moss mines and aassesses a union of giftedindividuals who follow their paths with great determination, unaware thattheir hearts will surely be changed in the process."-- _ The New York Times Book Review

"A compelling, often harrowing, occasionally heartbreaking read. A quietlydevastating portrait of the way identity crumbles when you've nothing, or noone, to pin it to." -- The Guardian
"Moss, a writer of complexity, and restraint, shows real skill in the way shebrings these 'lost children' back together."-- _ Financial Times

About the Author
Sarah Moss is the award-winning author of three previous novels: NightWaking , selected for the Fiction Uncovered Award in 2011, Names for theSea: Strangers in Iceland , shortlisted for the Royal Society of LiteraturePrize in 2013, and Bodies of Light , shortlisted for the prestigiousWellcome Prize. Signs for Lost Children was shortlisted for the WellcomePrize and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Mossteaches Creative Writing at the University of Warwick in England.