The Lightkeeper's Wife: Karen Viggers - Softcover

Viggers, Karen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1743310390 ISBN 13: 9781743310397

Verlag: Faber and Faber, 2012

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Karen Viggers sets the scene in a family dynamic filled with regret, loss and love. Poetic in its treatment, it's a novel of parallels and, ultimately, hope. * Australian Women's Weekly * This is an engrossing, often moving but never mawkish read. * Adelaide Advertiser * This is a poignant and beautiful work from a promising Australian author. * Australian Women Online *

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Elderly and in poor health, Mary has lived in Hobart a long time. But when a letter is delivered to her house by someone she hoped never to see again, she knows she must return to Bruny Island to live out her last days with only her regrets and memories for company. Years before, her husband was the lighthouse keeper on Bruny and she raised her family on the windswept island, until terrible circumstances forced them back to civilisation. Now, the secret that has haunted her for decades threatens to break free and she is desperate to banish it before her time is up. But secrets have a life of their own and, as Mary relives the events of her life, she realises her power over the future may be limited. Back in Hobart, Mary's adult children are respectively outraged, non-committal and sympathetic about her escape from their care. But no amount of coaxing will shake her resolve. Her youngest son Tom loves Bruny, and can understand her connection to that wild island, a place of solitude, healing and redemption for them both. As Mary's secret threatens to tear her apart, both she and Tom must face their pasts in ways they couldn't even begin to imagine. Mary finds that the script she's written to the end of her life has taken a few twists of its own.

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• Verlag: Faber and Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1743310390
• ISBN 13: 9781743310397
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 408