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{{Short description|Novel by Sumner Locke Elliott}}
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'''''Signs of Life''''' is a 1981 novel by [[Sumner Locke Elliott]].
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."<ref>{{Citation
| title=PS: WE HEAR YOU Sumner Locke Elliott: An interview in New York
| journal=The Bulletin
| series=John Ryan Comic Collection (Specific issues).
| date=27 December 1983
| location=Sydney, N.S.W
| publisher=John Haynes and J.F. Archibald
| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1605128490
| id=nla.obj-1605128490
| access-date=7 October 2024
| via=Trove
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The ''Los Angels Times'' called it "a satisfying exercise in depth and style."<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Los Angeles Times|date=12 July 1981|title=A cycle search for meaning|page=6}}</ref>
==References==
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{{Sumner Locke Elliott}}
[[Category:1981 Australian novels]]
[[Category:Works by Sumner Locke Elliott]]