Signs for Lost Children

Description:

Only weeks into their marriage a young couple embark[s] on a six-month period of separation. Tom Cavendish goes to Japan to build lighthouses and his wife Ally, a doctor, takes work at the Truro asylum where she must struggle against the terrible conditions imposed on the patients, the mores of late Victorian society and her own demons.

subjects: Fiction,  Married people,  History,  Great britain, fiction,  Japan, fiction,  Fiction, historical,  New York Times reviewed,  Fiction, historical, general,  Romans, nouvelles,  Histoire,  Married people -- Fiction,  Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901 -- Fiction,  Japan -- History -- Meiji period, 1868-1912 -- Fiction

Places: Japan,  Great Britain

Times: Meiji period, 1868-1912,  Victoria, 1837-1901