Reviewed by Kathy WatsonGRANTA, 320pp, £14.99Tablet bookshop price £13.50             Tel 01420 592974This unsettling novel, set in Victorian Manchester, focuses on the Moberley family, or, more specifically, on the women of the Moberley family. There is Elizabeth, who believes herself to be excellent wife material: “Not given to extravagance. Steady and genteel.” She has been raised to think of others and to deny her own needs. The result is a ruthless and sadistic mother. The house is cold, the babies unfed and Elizabeth’s eyes see only the pains of the streetwalkers and the homeless, not the needs of her own family. In one especially chilling scene, she burns her daughter with a candle in the inte