184708916X 
Hardback Bodies of light / Sarah Moss.
Publication year: 2014
Language: English
Media type Hardback
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9781847089168 (hbk.) : 9781847089083 (pbk.) :
Extent: 311 pages ; 23 cm
Available: 1
Total number of loans: 1
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Description:
'Bodies of Light' is a deeply poignant tale of a psychologically tumultuous 19th century upbringing set in the atmospheric world of pre-Raphaelitism and the early suffrage movement. Ally (older sister of May in 'Night Waking'), is intelligent, studious and engaged in an eternal - and losing - battle to gain her mother's approval and affection. Her mother, Elizabeth, is a religious zealot, keener on feeding the poor and saving prostitutes than on embracing the challenges of motherhood. Even when Ally wins a scholarship and is accepted as one of the first female students to read medicine in London, it still doesn't seem good enough.
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