Signs for Lost Children

Review 'Sarah Moss is one of our country's most underrated writers... [Signs forLost Children is] full of humanity, historical insight and beautiful writing...If there is one author you take a chance on this year, let it be her - it's time,and money, well spent' - Fiona Wilson, The Times 'Quietly devastating... These lateral portraits of disillusionment are excellentlyrendered. Tom's journey is external and exotic ... [and] is beautifullydelivered (Moss is an effortlessly elegant writer), but in the end it is Ally'sinternal odyssey that grips... A compelling, often harrowing, occasionallyheartbreaking read' - Sarah Crown, Guardian Product Description In this companion novel to Bodies of Light, Ally's husband Tom leaves, only weeks into their marriage, to build lighthouses in Japan. Ally, one of Britain's first female doctors, takes work at an asylum in Truro. With only letters sent across the ocean to sustain them, and with Ally now battling her old demons alone, will their marriage survive? About the Author SARAH MOSS is the author of eight novels, including Ghost Wall and The Tidal Zone. Her account of her time in Iceland, Names for the Sea, was shortlisted for the 2013 RSL Ondaatje Prize and she has three times been shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize.