#Book about lighthouse keeper and wife free#

That's why I visit lighthouses - they are so remote isolated and beautiful. I love wild places and I like to experience the elements.

The Lightkeeper's Wife is a moving story of love, loss and family, and what we have to do to live the best kind of life.Ĭlick here to see a short Abbey's Bookshop video about The Lightkeeper's Wife (La Memoire des embruns) Click here to hear Karen talking with Alex Sloan about the success of The Lightkeeper's Wife in France INSPIRATION FOR THE LIGHTKEEPER'S WIFE Mary finds that the script she's written to the end of her life has taken a few twists of its own. 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.Īs 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. 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.īack in Hobart, Mary's adult children are respectively outraged, non-committal and sympathetic about her escape from their care.

#Book about lighthouse keeper and wife free#

Now, the secret that has haunted her for years threatens to break free and she is desperate to banish it before her time is up. 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. 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 our her last days with only her regrets and memories for company. A powerful, moving novel that will steal your heart.Įlderly and in poor health, Mary has lived in Hobart for a long time.

A history of guilty secrets and words unspoken.