'Sarah Moss is one of our country's most underrated writers... Ally is one of the most memorable heroines of recent fiction. These books scream TV drama. You'll have forgotten Poldark and Outlander in no time. If there is one author you take a chance on this year, let it be her - it's time, and money, well spent' -- 'Best novel of 2015 so far', The Times
'A quietly devastating portrait... Moss is an effortlessly elegant writer and [Signs for Lost Children is] a compelling, often harrowing, occasionally heartbreaking read. It seems to me, with this book, that it's no longer sufficient to call what Moss is doing 'novel-writing'. Taken together, these three books constitute an ongoing interrogation of the role of women within the family, and in the wider world, and it's a broader, knottier enterprise than the word novel allows. A project, perhaps you could call it, of the lifelong variety. An undertaking' – Guardian
'As with Bodies of Light, the richness of Moss's work is astonishing. Few writers demonstrate such quietly magisterial command of the rocky territories of both the heart and mind' – Independent
'Moss captures Japan in the 1880s with chromatic elegance [and] lyrical descriptions. Signs for Lost Children [is] a rich and intricate novel' --Sunday Times
The arc of a Victorian novel, [though,] demands some sort of reunion and Moss, a writer of complexity and restraint, shows real skill in the way she brings these 'lost children' back together. Both have been changed by what has happened during their separation. Whether they can get back to their early state of grace is a question Moss leaves hanging until the very last page. ——Financial Times
