Author: Jean E. Pendziwol
Publisher: Harper
Publication Date: July 4, 2017
Edition: ebook (320 pages)
Genres:
- Fiction
- Biography
- Canada
- Family
- Historical Fiction
- Mystery
The Lightkeeper's Daughters by Jean E. PendziwolMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Elizabeth Livingston spends her days in a retirement home. Though she can no longer depend on her eye sight, she is strong of mind and spirit and very perceptive. When her father's old journals, which chronicle their family's lives as lighkeepers on a remote island on the Canadian side of Lake Superior, are brought to her, she asks Morgan, a teenage girl doing restoration work at the retirement home, to read the old water-soaked pages to her. Morgan is not thrilled to be there, but, little-by-little, she becomes interested in Elizabeth's life, especially when she and Elizabeth have some common threads running through their past and present.
This is an engaging and multi-layered story of family, history and culture--rich with strong characters, deep emotion and external and internal beauty. It's one I shall not forget. This book is one I shall revisit again.
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