Lighthouse Keepers by Elinor DeWire (1995, revised 2007). Lighting the Coast: A History of New Zealand's Coastal Lighthouse System by Helen Beaglehole (2006). Walk Across the Sea by Susan Fletcher (2001), a novel for teens about the fifteen-year-old daughter of a California lighthouse keeper who begins a tentative, secret friendship with a Chinese immigrant boy in the 1880s. The Edge of the Earth by Christina Schwarz (2013), about a woman who becomes a lighthouse keeper with her husband on California's Big Sur coast in 1898.
The Woman at the Light by Joanna Brady (2012), about a woman who must take over her husband's duties as lighthouse keeper on an island off Key West after he vanishes in 1839, and the runaway slave who appears on the island. If we live in a world largely made, even wrecked,īy others, what are our responsibilities as we pick our way through a wreckage weĬan mend only in bits and pieces, and where the mending itself must causeįurther damage? (2012 343 pages) More about The Light Between Oceans at Powell's Books or Oceans challenges readers to imagine what they wouldĭo in similar circumstances. The foreshadowing in this novel is not heavy-handed, but the mystery of theīaby's origin suggests more anguish is in store for this couple. His lapse in the performance of his duties and his fear that, somewhere, theĬhild's birth mother must be grieving weigh on his already-burdened conscience. If the love of his wife and the foundling are healing, The lighthouse mechanisms to keeping an accurate log, helps him rebuild a sense Him set the past aside attending to the many details of his work, from maintaining
He suffers from the guilt of surviving hisįellow soldiers and of knowing he has killed. Having fought in the World War I trenches, he The point of view moves among several characters, but theĬentral focus is on the husband. Miscarriage and pretend the baby is their own. Which comes every three months, it's easy to omit mention of another OnĪn island off the western coast of Australia, accessible only by the supply boat Lighthouse keeper's wife begs her husband not to report his discovery of a boatĬontaining a dead man and a live baby.
Rescue and raise a foundling - provided she doesn't ask too many questionsĪbout the baby's origin? In this lucidly written novel set in the 1920s, a Repeated miscarriages, a woman who yearns for a child has the opportunity to Oceans imagines a wrenching moral predicament.
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