Light

Margaret Elphinstone

first published 2006 Canongate U.S., 2007 paperback 432 pages

Set on a tiny island off the Isle of Man in 1831, *Light* is a family drama that reads like a pulse-pounding thriller. Sisters-in-law Lucy and Diya are raising their children together far from prying Victorian eyes, even as they dread the day the outside world will come to their island. That invasion arrives in the form of a surveyor and his assistant, sent to the remote outpost because a new lighthouse must be built...

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Light paperback · 2007 · Canongate Books Ltd · 432 pages · 9781841959849
Light paperback · 2007 · Canongate Books Ltd · 432 pages · 9781841959481
Light paperback · 2007 · Canongate U.S. · 432 pages · 9781841958804

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