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Publication Date: 15 Aug 2019 |
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Publisher: Marylebone House |
Page Count: 224 |
Author: Cole Moreton |
ISBN-13: 9781910674567, 9781910674574, 9781910674581 |
The Light Keeper
Set in a spectacular landscape, a haunting story of hope, redemption and love
Summary of The Light Keeper
This potent debut by award-winning writer Moreton weaves a richly evocative story of heartache and secrets, set along the precarious coastline of the Sussex Downs. Pacy and packed with bittersweet lyricism, it's a multi-layered tale with a surprise ending.
Wonderfully written. This is a book that will stay with you.
Cole writes with human warmth and bittersweet emotion. I loved this.
Tremendous speed and pace. The ending took me completely by surprise.
A beautifully haunting read. Evocative, spiritual and deeply immersive.
Cole Moreton writes with a poetic beauty and a very sharp eye. Mesmerising and lyrical, he creates atmosphere you can breathe and emotion that can shred your heart.
An absolute thing of beauty. Not like anything else I've read. Really involving & emotional. Fabulous.
The Light Keeper is as compelling and ambitious as it is deeply moving. In the interchange of landscape, characters, the here and now and the 'other', it brilliantly captures the real spiritual debate of the twenty-first century.
Beautifully tense and atmospheric. It feels like the characters are at the edge of the world and could fall off at any time. A page-turner.
Carefully paced but intense, detached but compelling, the movement of the novel is as enticing and treacherous as the sea and the coastland cliffs that it beautifully evokes.
Set in the South Coast of England, amongst the setting of Beachy Head and the South Downs National Park, ‘The Light Keeper’ contains compelling twists that keep the reader invested and guessing until the very end. Moreton explores the intimacy of relationships through husband and wife, Jack and Sarah. Sarah has run away from home to this wild, beautiful place to make a decision that is, for her, truly a matter of life and death. Pursued by Jack, he is desperate to find her on these hills before it is too late as the number of men and women going over the cliff edge has ominously increased of late. But does the secret lie with the Keeper who live alone in the old lighthouse, a few steps from the four-hundred-foot drop in this gorgeous, terrifying place?
Cole Moreton’s profound novel has endorsements from many respected authors from Matt Haig to Jane Fallon to Anthony Horrowitz.