Signs for Lost Children
In Victorian Cornwall, a doctor risks her marriage to fight for female asylum patients: One of the most memorable heroines of recent fiction (The Times, London).Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize for Historical Fiction>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 be taken seriously in a profession dominated by men. Me…
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- ISBN: 978-1-60945-379-4
- EAN: 9781609453794
- Produktnummer: 20357733
- Verlag: Europa Ed
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.5 cm x D3.8 cm 522 g
- Gewicht: 522
Über den Autor
Sarah Moss is the award-winning author of three previous novels: Night Waking, selected for the Fiction Uncovered Award in 2011, Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland, shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Prize in 2013, and Bodies of Light, shortlisted for the prestigious Wellcome Prize. Signs for Lost Children was shortlisted for the Wellcome Prize and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Moss teaches Creative Writing at the University of Warwick in England.
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