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Signs for Lost Children by Moss, Sarah is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 a portrait of a young couple's unconventional marriage as it's tested by separate 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 she met 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 by the brutal attitudes of male doctors and nurses toward their female patients, Ally plunges into the institutional politics of women's mental health at a time when madness is only just being imagined as treatable. She has to contend with a longstanding tradition of permanently institutionalizing women who are deemed difficult, all the while fighting to to be taken seriously as a rare woman in a profession dominated by men. Tom, an architect, has been employed to oversee the building of Japanese lighthouses. He also has a commission from a wealthy coll

Who reads Signs for Lost Children?

Author

Moss, Sarah

Publisher

Europa Editions, Incorporated

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781609453800

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.02 / 5 (28 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13