![]() ![]() In her riveting and suspenseful novel, Emma Stonex writes a story of isolation and obsession, of reality and illusion, and of what it takes to keep the light burning when all else is swallowed by dark.įor this novel, Emma Stonex takes inspiration from the Eilean Mor lighthouse mystery on the Flannan Isles in the Outer Hebrides in 1900 where lighthouse keepers disappeared. Moving between the women's stories and the men's last weeks together in the lighthouse, long-held secrets surface and truths twist into lies as we piece together what happened, why, and who to believe. Two decades later, the wives who were left behind are visited by a writer who is determined to find the truth about the men's disappearance. The Principal Keeper's weather log describes a storm raging round the tower, but the skies have been clear all week. When the entrance door, locked from the inside, is battered down, rescuers find an empty tower. ![]() It's New Year's Eve, 1972, when a boat pulls up to the Maiden Rock lighthouse with relief for the keepers. And out of the swell like a finger of light, the salt-scratched tower stands lonely and magnificent. Black rocks roll beneath the surface, drowning ghosts. What strange fate befell these doomed men? The heavy sea whispers their names. Inspired by a haunting true story, a gorgeous and atmospheric novel about the mysterious disappearance of three lighthouse keepers from a remote tower miles from the Cornish coast-and about the wives who were left behind. ![]()
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