Sarah Moss

Bodies of Light

Notify me when the book’s added
To read this book, upload an EPUB or FB2 file to Bookmate. How do I upload a book?
Ally Moberley grows up surrounded by her father's decadent paintings and her mother's disapproval. When bitterness and tragedy divide her family, Ally must leave her Manchester home and begin a new life in London, where she is determined to join the first generation of female doctors.
This book is currently unavailable
325 printed pages
Publication year
2014
Have you already read it? How did you like it?
👍👎

Quotes

  • b6281743919has quoted3 years ago
    The healers do not have to be whole because wholeness, holiness, are not human qualities. Humanity’s greatest gift is love and not reason – St Paul is not usually among her prophets but this, for the first time, seems true – and Mamma, for all her time in church, does not know this. If she is to be a doctor – as she is to be a doctor – she will be a broken doctor, her own hurt as much part of her practice as her healing. A docto
  • b6281743919has quoted3 years ago
    and not run away to hide.
  • b6281743919has quoted3 years ago
    This, it seems to Ally, is the condition of human agency; our very lives cause harm to others and it is wilful blindness to pretend otherwise. We are all of us, every mortal soul, damaging persons. Our best hope, for salvation and for medicine – the thing, she thinks, that Mamma cannot do – is to own the damage we do. And to live with it
fb2epub
Drag & drop your files (not more than 5 at once)