Jeanette Winterson is one of the most extraordinary and original writers of her generation, and this shows her at her lyrical best. A story of mutability, talking birds and stolen books, of Darwin and Stevenson and of the Jekyll and Hyde in all of us, Lighthousekeeping is a way into the most secret recesses of our own hearts and minds. One life, Babel Dark's, a nineteenth century clergyman, opens like a map that Silver must follow, and the intertwining of myth and reality, of storytelling and experience, lead her through her own particular darkness. Pew tells Silver ancient tales of longing and rootlessness, of the slippages that occur throughout every life. Pew tells Silver stories of Babel Dark, a nineteenth-century clergyman. But, above all, it is about stories, telling stories. Lighthousekeeping is about growing up, about solitude, about the dark and light side of people, about lighthouses (of course), about breaking out of the mould, about love (maybe). Pew, the mysterious and miraculously old keeper of a lighthouse on the Scottish coast. Home » England » Jeanette Winterson » Lighthousekeeping. I was born part precious metal, part pirate.'), an orphaned girl who is taken in by blind Mr. Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse. Lighthousekeeping tells the tale of Silver ('My mother called me Silver. Motherless and anchorless, Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr. A magical, lyrical tale from one of Britain's best-loved literary novelists. Pew, who reveals to her a world of myth and mystery through the art of storytelling. The young orphan Silver is taken in by the ancient lighthousekeeper Mr.
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