Title: 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
Time periods: Meiji period, 1868-1912, Victoria, 1837-1901