The tale concerns the lighthouse, its founder, wealthy Bristol merchant Josiah Dark, and his son, Babel, who in 1848 seemed set to marry his pretty girlfriend Molly. Pew is blind but has a good heart, and his storytelling saves Silver from despair. When Silver is ten, in 1969, a mighty wind blows her mother into oblivion, and Silver is taken in by Pew, the lighthouse keeper, as his apprentice. Silver, the girl, lives with her mother in Salts, on Scotland’s northwestern coast, sailor father long gone. A 19th-century man travels from light into darkness a 20th-century girl travels, stumblingly, from darkness into light. The British author gives us two lives from two centuries. there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.” Winterson’s latest is all about light and dark, love and its absence. “The continuous narrative of existence is a lie.
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