''Signs of Life'' is a 1981 novel by

Sumner Locke Elliott Sumner Locke Elliott (17 October 191724 June 1991) was an Australian (later American) novelist and playwright. Biography Elliott was born in Sydney to the writer Sumner Locke and the journalist Henry Logan Elliott. His mother died of eclampsi ...

. Elliott said, "It’s a quieter book than I’ve done for some time and it doesn’t depend on tricks; it depends totally on character and here again is a woman who simply cannot find herself until ironically at the very end, through her daughter whom she has waged battles with." The ''

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'' called it "a satisfying exercise in depth and style."

References

{{Sumner Locke Elliott 1981 Australian novels Works by Sumner Locke Elliott