Signs for Lost Children | 
pickIt took me awhile to become entranced by this one which was not helped by the fact that at first part of this book is almost verbatim the end of Bodies of Light. While this wasn‘t my favorite of Moss‘s books I did end up very much entranced and wanted more and more of Ally‘s life ( I could have done with less of Tom‘s journey). I am ready to buy all of books she has written. 2024 may end up the year of Sarah Moss for me.
pickBeautiful writing, as always, and rather interesting tale of Japan and Japanese culture in 1880's. I liked the interaction and cultural diversity, alongside the female asylum story
My wonderful boyfriend gave this to me for Jolabokaflod, along with a gorgeous cherry 🍒 chocolate, vegan.
So blessed.
pickI absolutely loved this; the sequel to Bodies of Light. Ally is now a doctor, breaking boundaries by tentatively starting to practise in Truro Asylum and also finding her footing as a wife. Heartbreaking and beautifully written; with themes of feminism, suffrage, sanity and Victorian poverty, these two books are the best historical fiction I‘ve read in a long time; feeling modern and very relevant. Beautiful.
#12booksof2021 #April @andrew65 was a gd rdg month in which my 5* read was Olive Kitteridge but my final round up choice is the culmination of sarah moss trilogy abt a yng woman from Manchester at the origin of women qualifying as doctors. Sarah moss is so skilled in her storytelling and here newly wed Ally is left in Cornwall working in an asylum with insane women as husband Tom builds a lighthouse in Japan. Can't wait to read her latest in 2022
pickSarah moss is rapidly becoming one of my favourite authors and in this, the 3rd in a loose trilogy newly married Ally, with a job as dr in a 19th century cornish women's asylum, faces time alone as husband tom has work in Japan. Written so lovingly I was shouting at the bk when driven by her self guilt she returns to Manchester and her terrible mother. A wonderful 3 bks that I want to reread , and I am looking fwd now to her most recent novel.
There‘s a lot of #WishYouWereHere between Ally, who‘s in England, and Tom who‘s in Japan, in this book. And while this wasn‘t my favourite Moss book, I‘m still in awe of her writing skills 🙌
#MarchIntoThe70s let‘s she how long I can keep up my posting this month 😅
so-soI love Sarah Moss. I really do. So this rating is a case of “it‘s me, not you book”. I have just been a bit down about being unemployed, so I haven‘t really been able to focus on reading. I struggled to connect to the book, which I normally don‘t do with a Moss book.
With that being said, Moss‘ writing is beautiful and I loved he focus on mental illness and treatment. Also, now I really need to visit Japan, because it sounds GORGEOUS!
I feel like my days are moving way too fast at the moment, and being unemployed and job hunting are taking up more and more space in my mind. I‘m trying to do a bit of #selfcare today with some reading, coffee and an apple crumble. But I might end up just watching RuPaul‘s Drag Race since it feels like the only thing I can focus on at the moment 😅
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Every time I start a new Sarah Moss book, I can‘t help but wonder why it took me so long to pick it up. I‘m only two chapters in, and I don‘t have time to read more at the moment, but Moss has already hooked me enough that I don‘t want to stop reading.
#currentlyreading
Look what I found! An author whom I saw @Kalalalatja recommended. Couldn‘t find the other titles that you‘ve read Katja, have you read this one?
pickA story of the first year of a marriage, spent on opposite sides of the globe (Japan and Cornwall). Of being in your right mind. Of the damage a family can do. & of kindness.
Sarah Moss ❤️. Her characters are so real, I find myself having conversations with them. (Not weird at all 😐). She writes about anxiety & mental health in a way that takes you inside the character's head. And her writing, research and storytelling are beautiful.
Also 🦊.
Wishing Ally the #greatestloveofall.
She's qualified as a doctor, got married and is about to start work at an asylum. And nothing she does will ever be enough to meet her own standards.
I've just started this - I loved the first part of Ally's story and can't wait to see where it takes us. Ally is one of the most heartbreakingly real characters I've met & I'm glad to discover Sarah Moss a few books in because backlist!
#augustgrrrl @Cinfhen
Waiting for me in my Audible library (& Meriel Scholfield is the narrator who convinced me that audiobooks were worth the effort btw).
Ally is one of the first women in Britain to qualify as a doctor, and, newly married, she heads to Truro to work at the asylum with those described as #insaneinthebrain. Having suffered crippling anxiety herself (& being female) she was merely considered weak or hysterical.
@Robothugs @Cinfhen #90sinJuly
An acclaimed 2015 novel set in the 1880s, partly in Japan. I'm in!
