Figures of light. Moss S.

The subtlest and piercing story of growing up in a special atmosphere of pre -Raphaelitism. Alli is smart, diligent and leads the endless - and invariably unsuccessful - the battle for the approval and affection of his mother. Her mother Elizabeth is obsessed with a mission - to feed the suffering and save the fallen, and the upbringing of her daughters for her is compliance with the rules, discipline and asceticism in everything. Even when Alli receives a scholarship and becomes one of the first women studying medicine, the mother remains indifferent to the success of her daughter. But Roman Sarah Moss about the woman’s attempts to break out of the chains of prohibitions and attitudes - this is not so much a story about the origin of feminism as immersion in the world of the family, where love is hidden too deeply.