A Sign of Her Own - Sarah Marsh - Bog

It is the 19th century and Alexander Graham Bell is on the cusp of the invention that will change the world: the telephone.Heralded as the invention of its time, he is beset by enemies from the world of science, and the world of trade who are desperate to thwart his endeavours. It is on the brink of despair that he reaches out to his protegee, Ellen Lark, to help salvage his reputation and cement the support he needs to bring forth the technology that has been his life's work.Yet, secretly Ellen despises him. As a deaf woman, she has seen how Bell has built his machine on the backs of the deaf community - a community he has used and abused, and who will be sent further into the shadows by his invention. Once his student, Ellen believed he was everything, as he taught her to suppress her deafness, to formulate speech like the hearing and lipread - to become a part of society again.But there was once a time when Ellen had a voice of her own; a language of signs and shapes that was a source of pride among her own community, who saw deafness as an identity, not an affliction. Now Alexander seeks her help, but can Ellen perform the part of protegee one last time, or will this be the final act of a long awaited revenge?