The two of them bond over Pew's wonderful stories of his ancestors and of Babel Dark, minister and son of a town founder who led a mysterious double life. There have always been Pews keeping this lighthouse, he tells her, and Pew plans for Silver to take over when he passes on. When an accident leaves Silver orphaned, the only person willing to take her in is Pew, the blind, elderly lighthouse keeper. I rarely reread books, but I think I'll be returning to 'Lighthousekeeping.'Outcast from the Scottish town of Salts after becoming pregnant out of wedlock, a woman and her daughter Silver move into an unstable house cut into the side of the rocky coast. Still, I decided to give this little book a chance, and I'm vert glad that I did.
It leaned towards magical realism, a genre I'm not fond of, and I gave up on it. I tried to read one of Janette Winterson's books several years ago but gave up on it. “In her sea-soaked and hypnotic eighth novel, Winterson turns the tale of an orphaned young girl and a blind old man into a fable about love and the power of storytelling…Atmospheric and elusive, Winterson's high-modernist excursion is an inspired meditation on myth and language.”- The New Yorker Forster Awards, the author of Oranges are Not the Only Fruit Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? and other acclaimed works. It’s one that Silver must follow if she’s to be led through her own darkness, and to find her own meaning in life, in this novel by a winner of the Costa, Lambda, and E.M. Pew’s story within a story within a story soon unfolds like a map.
Peopled with such luminaries as Charles Darwin and Robert Louis Stevenson, Mr. The tale he has to tell Silver is that of a nineteenth-century clergyman named Babel Dark, whose life was divided between a loving light and a mask of deceit. Pew-blind, as old and legendary as a unicorn, and a yarn spinner of persuasive power. Taken in by the mysterious keeper of a lighthouse on Cape Wrath, Silver finds an anchor in Mr. An orphaned girl is held spellbound by the tales of a lighthouse keeper on the Scottish coast, in a novel by the Costa Award-winning author of The Passion.Īfter her mother is literally swept away by the savage winds off the Atlantic coast of Salts, Scotland, never to be seen again, the orphaned Silver is feeling particularly unmoored.
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