Light

May, 1831, and on a tiny island off the Isle of Man a lighthouse provides a harsh living for an unusual family. 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.

Author: Margaret Elphinstone
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 02/21/2023
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9781841959849
ISBN10: 1841959847
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Family Life | General

About the Author
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.