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Margaret Elphinstone is the author of eight novels, including The Incomer (1987), A Sparrow's Flight (1989), Islanders (1994), The Sea Road (2000), Hy Brasil (2002), Voyageurs (2003) and Light (2006). She has also had published short stories, poetry and two books on organic gardening. Her next book, And Some There Be, will be published by Canongate in 2009. She lives in Glasgow and teaches at the University of Strathclyde.
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Sisters-in-law Lucy and Diya have three children between them and live on the remote island of Ellan Bride off the Isle of Man in 1831. Ever since Diya's husband died, Lucy has lit the lamps and polished the reflectors in the lighthouse, whose beam saves an untold number of sailors' lives every year in the treacherous seawaters. But new technology has brought Archie Buchanan, an ambitious surveyor, and his hardworking assistant, Ben Groat, to the tiny island to scope out a project for building a new lighthouse. The women are frightened about what the change means for their future, while the children, at first nervous in the presence of strangers, are intrigued by their equipment and far-ranging conversations, which provide glimpses of the outside world. Then Diya's strong-willed daughter provokes a crisis by attempting to lead Archie astray on a remote footpath. In this moving depiction of a close-knit family learning to navigate overwhelming change, Elphinstone also brings alive the stark beauty of the island through her graceful, finely detailed descriptions of the wildlife and landscape. Joanne Wilkinson
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- PublisherCanongate Books
- Publication date2023
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- ISBN 13 9781841959849
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The new novel from the acclaimed author of Voyageurs and The Sea Road.May, 1831: a tiny island off the Isle of Man, where a lighthouse provides a harsh living for an unusual family.Isolated from the mainland they have been able to live away from the disapproving eyes of polite society. But, on the arrival of Stevenson's surveyors, the very existence of their world is threatened.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 Elphinstone 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 Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781841959849
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Book Description Condition: New. 2007. Main. Paperback. Lucy and Diya, husbandless and with three children between them, watch over the ancient light on Ellan Bride. Meanwhile the Scottish engineer, Robert Stevenson, is modernising the nation's lighthouses, and Ellan Bride and the future of the family, are under threat. When two surveyors arrive to assess the light, tension escalates to danger point. Num Pages: 432 pages, map. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 145 x 28. Weight in Grams: 354. . . . . . Seller Inventory # V9781841959849
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Book Description Condition: New. 2007. Main. Paperback. Lucy and Diya, husbandless and with three children between them, watch over the ancient light on Ellan Bride. Meanwhile the Scottish engineer, Robert Stevenson, is modernising the nation's lighthouses, and Ellan Bride and the future of the family, are under threat. When two surveyors arrive to assess the light, tension escalates to danger point. Num Pages: 432 pages, map. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 145 x 28. Weight in Grams: 354. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9781841959849
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