The Lightkeeper's Wife

✍ Scribed by Karen Viggers

• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 233 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

A woman at the end of her life, a man unable to restart his, and a history of guilty secrets and things left unsaidthis is a powerful, moving novel of love, loss, and family Elderly and in poor health, Mary fulfills her wish to herself to live out her last days on Bruny Island off of Tasmania, with only her regrets and memories for company. Her late husband was the lighthousekeeper on Bruny, and she'd raised a family on the wild windswept island, until terrible circumstances forced them back to civilization. The long-buried secret that has haunted her for decades now threatens to break free, and she hopes to banish it in the time she has left. Mary's youngest son Tom loves Bruny as much as she does, and understands her primal connection to the island. Years before he spent a winter working in Antarctica, and returned from that empty loneliness to find his marriage over and his life destroyed. Still wounded, Tom lives a simple life, unable and unwilling to make...