Mental illness in fiction

Starling Days by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan: You might as well live

10 July 2019 19 June 2020 / 15 Comments

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s debut, Harmless Like You, was one of my books of 2016. I loved it for its poignancy leavened with wry humour, and for the striking images shining brightly from its pages. That same deft writing is evident in Starling Days which follows Mina and Oscar from New York to London where Oscar …

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Signs for Lost Children by Sarah Moss: What Ally and Tom did next

10 July 2015 29 June 2020 / 17 Comments

Sarah Moss’s excellent Bodies of Light appeared on the Wellcome Trust Book Prize shortlist for its theme of nineteenth century women in medicine earlier this year. Signs for Lost Children is its sequel, picking up Ally and Tom’s story from where Bodies of Light left off. Newly married, they face separation as Ally practices as a …

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