Review of A Sign of Her Own by Sarah Marsh

 

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Today is my stop on the Random Things blog tour for A Sign of Her Own by Sarah Marsh.

Ellen Lark is soon to be married when she receives a visit from Alexander Graham Bell. Ellen knows straight away what the visit is about and what he wants from her.

Ellen is deaf and she was previously a student of Bell. As he taught her in Visible Speaking, he also confided I her about his ambition to invent a device to connect voices via a wire: the telephone.

Now that he has made the telephone, he wants Ellen to vouch for him in his determination to get a patent. However, Ellen has a different side to that story and she feels betrayed. This is her side of the story.

This was such a powerful and compelling read that highlights a forgotten period of time when there were movements against the use of sign language. 

It is an amazing debut novel that I highly recommend.

5 stars

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About the Author

Sarah Marsh was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish prize in 2019 and selected for the London Library Emerging Writers programme in 2020. A Sign of Her Own is her first novel, inspired by her experiences of growing up deaf and her family’s history of deafness. She lives in London.