Jean E. Pendziwol

I read this for the "Light" prompt of the 52 Book Club's December Mini Challenge. I wasn't too hooked by the beginning, it took a while for it to build up for me but once it did I couldn't put it down. I also should have saved this one for the 2021 challenge, it had deckled edges and an ending that I didn't see coming.

Stunning art and lovely, lyrical language weave brother and sister into the natural world. Exquisite!

An amazing historical fiction book. I was also an assistant lightkeepers daughter. This book evoked so many memories. I did not live on an island but could see the lighthouse from the house I lived in.
I feel the author did so much research before she wrote this book. The lighthouse I was always around was on the ocean so it never froze.
Thanks to the author for this wonderful story.

Elizabeth is old and frailwith declining eyesight and about to die. With the help of of Morgan a deliquent teenager performing community service at the home, Elizabeth delves into the diaries left to her by her father.