368 pages
English language
Published Nov. 13, 2016 by Granta Books.
368 pages
English language
Published Nov. 13, 2016 by Granta Books.
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.