![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Forster Awards, the author of Oranges are Not the Only Fruit Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? and other acclaimed works. It's one that Silver must follow if she's to be led through her own darkness, and to find her own meaning in life, in this novel by a winner of the Costa, Lambda, and E.M. Pew's story within a story within a story soon unfolds like a map. Peopled with such luminaries as Charles Darwin and Robert Louis Stevenson, Mr. ![]() The tale he has to tell Silver is that of a nineteenth-century clergyman named Babel Dark, whose life was divided between a loving light and a mask of deceit. Pew-blind, as old and legendary as a unicorn, and a yarn spinner of persuasive power. Taken in by the mysterious keeper of a lighthouse on Cape Wrath, Silver finds an anchor in Mr. After her mother is literally swept away by the savage winds off the Atlantic coast of Salts, Scotland, never to be seen again, the orphaned Silver is feeling particularly unmoored. An orphaned girl is held spellbound by the tales of a lighthouse keeper on the Scottish coast, in a novel by the Costa Award-winning author of The Passion. ![]()
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