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In April 1946 Michael, a soldier, returns, to Southampton on a troop ship, brutalised by war and unable to face the life that awaits him. Impulsively, he boards a train to the western tip of Cornwall and in doing so, changes his destiny.
More than half a century later, Kit, an enigmatic stranger arrives in Norfolk to take up an unwanted inheritance -a decommissioned lighthouse. Content with his existence, Kit doesn't wish to see anything the lighthouse's beam illuminates. But the choice is out of his hands.
Mother of three Luisa is faltering in the flow of her life; as her children begin to fly the nest she feels suspended, without direction. But when Kit and Luisa meet, neither can escape the inevitability of Michael's split-second decision at the Southampton docks.
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Raffaella Barker, daughter of the poet George Barker, was born and brought up in the Norfolk countryside. She is the author of seven acclaimed novels: Come and Tell Me Some Lies, The Hook, Hens Dancing, Summertime, Green Grass, A Perfect Life and Poppyland. She has also written a novel for young adults, Phosphorescence. She is a regular contributor to the Sunday Times and the Sunday Telegraph, and teaches on the Literature and Creative Writing BA at the University of East Anglia and the Guardian UEA Novel Writing Masterclass. Raffaella Barker lives by the sea in north Norfolk.
www.raffaellabarker.co.uk
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