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Book review - The Lightkeeper's Daughters by Jean Pendziwol.
The Lightkeeper’s Daughters, Jean E. Pendziwol, Jonathan Ball Publishers
IT has been decades since Elizabeth, while exploring her home, the Island of Porphyry, stumbled upon a small grave with her name engraved on it.
All these years the truth behind her own identity and the identity of the tiny body that had been buried there along the shores of Lake Superior have haunted her.
And now that the journals of late her father (the Island’s former lighthouse keeper), which could reveal the mystery behind the grave, have resurfaced, Elizabeth is unable to read them.
As an old woman her eyes have begun to fail her.
However, she elicits the help of a troubled teen, Morgan to read the journals.
Entry after entry the duo are drawn further into Elizabeth’s isolated life as one of the lighthouse keeper’s daughters to reveal a number of the Island’s many secrets.
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The duo soon realise that they have more in common than their curiosity.
Jean E Pendziwol’s adult fiction debut is simply beautiful.
It kept me entranced until the very last page, however, if you have never been a fan of Jodi Picoult, give this book a miss.
The powerful and poignant tale is not everyone’s cup of tea.
Personally, I loved the characters and the seamless manner in which Pendziwol was able to move between the past and the present as well as Elizabeth and Morgan’s narratives.
