![]() But what else can I say?' A story of mutability, of talking birds and stolen books, of Darwin and Stevenson and of the Jekyll and Hyde in all of us. Caught in her own particular darknesses, she embarks on an Ulyssean sift through the stories we tell ourselves, stories of love and loss, of passion and longing, stories of unending journeys that move through places and times, and the bleak finality of the shores of betrayal. One life, Babel Dark's, a 19th century clergyman, opens like a map that Silver must follow. Pew tells Silver ancient tales of longing and rootlessness, of ties that bind and of the slippages that occur throughout every life. Lighthousekeeping Originally being released on the 3rd of April in 2006, this would come out through the ‘Mariner Books’ publishing label. ![]() ![]() Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse. Motherless and anchorless, Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr. Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson Synopsis 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. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine slightly sunned, some old chocolate (?) splashes to front jacket, very slight lean, not price clipped (£15.00), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, IN PURPLE PEN, ON TITLE PAGE 'To Emma Jeanette Winterson'. First edition, subsequent impression with number line '3 5 7 9 20 8 6 4 2'. ![]() Jacket by Julian Humphries (illustrator). ![]()
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