The lightkeeper's daughter / Jean E. Pendziwol.
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TextDescription: 310 pages ; 24 cmISBN: 9781474605014 ; 9781474605007 Subject(s): Family secrets -- Fiction | People with visual disabilities -- Fiction | Diaries -- Fiction | Blindness -- Fiction | Juvenile delinquents -- Fiction | Superior, Lake -- FictionDDC classification: C813.6 Summary: Elizabeth's eyes have failed. She can no longer read the books she loves or see the paintings that move her, but her mind remains sharp and music fills the vacancy left by her blindness. When her father's journals are discovered on a shipwrecked boat, she enlists the help of a delinquent teen, Morgan, to read to her. As an unlikely friendship grows between them, Elizabeth is carried back to her childhood home - the lighthouse on Porphyry Island, Lake Superior - and to the memory of her enigmatic twin sister Emily. But for Elizabeth, the faded pages of her father's journals reveal more secrets than she anticipates.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| Fiction | Hāwera LibraryPlus Fiction | Fiction | PEND (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | i2168972 | ||
| Fiction | Waverley LibraryPlus Fiction | Fiction | PEND (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | i2167755 |
"When you live on an island, nothing is secret" -- cover.
Elizabeth's eyes have failed. She can no longer read the books she loves or see the paintings that move her, but her mind remains sharp and music fills the vacancy left by her blindness. When her father's journals are discovered on a shipwrecked boat, she enlists the help of a delinquent teen, Morgan, to read to her. As an unlikely friendship grows between them, Elizabeth is carried back to her childhood home - the lighthouse on Porphyry Island, Lake Superior - and to the memory of her enigmatic twin sister Emily. But for Elizabeth, the faded pages of her father's journals reveal more secrets than she anticipates.
Comment by Lynne
15/10/2017this is a very good first adult novel and i hope to see more of this author. an excellent storyline which grips you straight away and holds you until the end . Lynne