Bodies of Light is set primarily in Manchester and London, between the mids to the s The central family is Alfred Moberley, an artist and craftsman, and his increasingly successful circle, and Elizabeth, his wife, an idealistic Christian woman with a passionate commitment to female rights, to the burgeoning movements to achieve equality of opportunity for women in the field of education, /5(). · Bodies of Light – Sarah Moss. Ally is mad, or so her mother assures her. Mad, weak and sinful. Only physical penance and dedication to a good cause can save her. Religion, art, psychology, women’s suffrage and Victorian medicine all come under the scope in this excellent historical novel about one girl’s journey to define herself and claim her future. · Bodies of Light by Sarah Moss is a historical novel set in 19th century Manchester. As we follow the growing-up years of the main character, Alethea “Ally” Moberly, until she earns her medical Author: Grrlscientist.
Author: Sarah Moss ISBN X. Title: Bodies of Light Item Condition: used item in a good condition. Will be clean, not soiled or stained. Books will be free of page markings. Published On: SKU: Sarah Moss is the award winning author of three previous novels Night Waking, selected for the Fiction Uncovered Award in , Names for the Sea Strangers in Iceland, shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Prize in , 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. Bodies of Light is a book by Glasgow-born Sarah Moss on the stirrings of women's suffrage in an arty clique in nineteenth-century England. Set in the intellectually smoggy cities of Manchester and London, we follow the studious and intelligent Alethia 'Ally' Moberly, who is struggling to gain the acceptance of herself, her mother and the.
Two of her nominations were for a historical diptych Bodies of Light () and Signs for Lost Children (), about the struggles of a pioneering Victorian female doctor to find her place, and. Bodies of Light, by Sarah Moss. I know that love works in mysterious ways – but there’s something not quite right about the relationships in Sarah Moss’s third novel, Bodies of Light. Sarah Moss is an acclaimed young British novelist – a graduate of Oxford and currently Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Warwick. 'Bodies of Light' is a profound and provocative book about family, and a radically modern novel with a 19th-century setting. It is a gripping story told with rare precision and tenderness. Bodies of Light by Sarah Moss | Wellcome Book Prize Shortlist.
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