Lighthouse Bay
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4.0 • 2 Ratings
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
1901: Isabella Winterbourne has suffered the worst loss a woman can know, and can no longer bear her husband nor his oppressive upper-class family. On a voyage between London and Sydney to accompany a priceless gift to the Australian parliament, Isabella is the sole survivor of a shipwreck off the sun-drenched Queensland coast. But in this strange new place, she finds she cannot escape her past quite as easily as she'd hoped.
2011: A woman returns from Paris to her beachside hometown to reconcile with her sister. But she, too, has a past that is hard to escape, and her sister is not in a mood to forgive her. Strange noises at night and activity at the abandoned lighthouse raise her curiosity, and she finds herself investigating a century-old town mystery.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The setting of Freeman's warmly emotional second novel (after Wildflower Hill), a port town on the coast of Queensland, Australia, takes its name from the beckoning light that has saved innumerable ships over the years. Freeman skillfully unites the stories of two women who live a century apart but both face the challenge of overcoming difficult pasts, and both under the lighthouse's watchful presence. In 1901, Isabella Winterbourne, sole survivor of a shipwreck, arrives in Queensland carrying with her the pain of her infant son Daniel's death prior to the disaster, as well as a hidden treasure. Lighthouse keeper Matthew Seaward might be able to teach her to love again. In the present day, Libby Slater has returned to Lighthouse Bay, alone and bereft after her married lover's fatal aneurysm, to confront her memories. Can a stash of diaries hidden in the old lighthouse help repair the relationship between Libby and her estranged sister, Juliet? Freeman's moving tale gives her two heroines the unique chance to make a fresh start in life.
