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Jean E. Pendziwol

The Lightkeeper´s Daughters


2017. 320 S. 233 mm
Verlag/Jahr: ORION PUBLISHING GROUP; WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON 2017
ISBN: 1-474-60501-X (147460501X)
Neue ISBN: 978-1-474-60501-4 (9781474605014)

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For fans of THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS and THE ICE TWINS; an unlikely friendship, a lost journal, and the mystery of what happened to the lightkeeper´s daughters when a secret love changed everything.
Elizabeth´s eyes have failed. She can no longer read the books she loves or see the paintings that move her, but her mind remains sharp and music fills the vacancy left by her blindness.

When her father´s journals are discovered on a shipwrecked boat, she enlists the help of a delinquent teen, Morgan, to read to her. As an unlikely friendship grows between them, Elizabeth is carried back to her childhood home - the lighthouse on Porphyry Island, Lake Superior - and to the memory of her enigmatic twin sister Emily.

But for Elizabeth, the faded pages of her father´s journals reveal more secrets than she anticipates.
Jean Pendziwol´s beautifully written novel captured me from the very first page. Its descriptions of the windswept lightkeeper´s station of Elizabeth´s and Emily´s youth are so crisply rendered I felt I was standing on its shores watching the great ships cross the stormy waters of Lake Superior. Even more than its vivid evocation of a unique time and place, THE LIGHTKEEPER´S DAUGHTERS is a sensitive and moving examination of the nature of identity, the importance of family, and the possibility of second chances Heather Young, author of THE LOST GIRLS
Pendziwol, Jean
Jean E. Pendziwol is an award-winning Canadian author of books for children. ONCE UPON A NORTHERN NIGHT was shortlisted for a Governor General´s Award and the 2014 TD Canadian Children´s Literature Awards Book of the Year. THE LIGHTKEEPER´S DAUGHTERS is her debut novel for adults. She lives in Ontario in the shadow of the Nor´Wester Mountains near Lake Superior.