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'A child born of chance might imagine that Chance was its father, in the
way that gods fathered children, and then abandoned them, without a backward
glance, but with one small gift. I wondered if a gift had been left for me. I
had no idea where to look, or what I was looking for, but I know now that all
important journeys start that way. 'Motherless and anchorless, Silver is taken
in by the timeless Mr. Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse. Pew tells
Silver ancient tales of longing and rootlessness, of ties that bind and of the
slippages that occur throughout every life. One life, Babel Dark's, a
nineteenth century clergyman, opens like a map that Silver must follow. 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. But finally, "I love you. The
most difficult words in the world. 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, Lighthousekeeping is a way in to the rooms of
our own that we secretly inhabit. Jeanette Winterson is one of the most
extraordinary and original writers of her generation and this shows her at her
lyrical best. Motherless and anchorless, Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr.Pew,
keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse. Pew tells Silver ancient tales of longing
and rootlessness, of ties that bind and of the slippages that occur throughout
every life.
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