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From the acclaimed author of The Sea Road and Voyageurs May, 1831, and on a tiny island off the Isle of Man a lighthouse provides a harsh living from an unusual family. Safe from the disapproving eyes of polite society. Lucy and Diya, sisters-in-law with three children between them, watch over the ancient light on Ellan Bride. But the Scottish lighthouse engineer, Robert Stevenson, is making his name building the remarkable modern Bell Rock light, and Ellan Bride is under threat - and the future of the family hangs in the balance. When Archie Buchanan and Ben Groat arrive to assess the Ellan Bridge ligth, they find themselves in the midst of a charged atmosphere, and emotions escalate to danger point. No one is prepared for the outcome.
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The prose is crisp . . . but what stands out is Elphinstone's sense of a strange time and place. * * The Times * * This is true experimental writing: careless of taboo, teeming with ideas, elusive yet utterly controlled. * * Guardian * * Ephinstone is a worthy successor to writers like Linklater and Mackay Brown, developing themes in the new century with a voice which is distinctly her own. * * Herald * *
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"Light, set in the 1830s, brings surveyors, imbued with the confidence of Enlightenment Edinburgh, to build a new lighthouse on a remote island. There they discover the women maintaining the old light have values rooted in other times and places and a different perspective on ‘progress’. For the island children the ensuing conflict is both an adventure and an introduction to other worlds, geographical and emotional." Margaret Elphinstone
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- PublisherCanongate Books
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1841958050
- ISBN 13 9781841958057
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- Number of pages432
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