#Review: The Light Keeper by Cole Moreton @ColeMorton @SPCKPublishing @tarynbrickner #TheLightKeeper16/8/2019 Release date - 15th August 2019
Book length - 224 pages Publisher - SPCK Publishing Worldwide - www.bookdepository.com Amazon UK - www.amazon.co.uk Amazon US - www.amazon.com I want to thank Taryn and spckpublishing.co.uk for providing me with a copy of this book for review. ABOUT THIS BOOK A young woman stands on the brink of a high cliff overlooking the sea, arms wide open as if to let the wind carry her over. She has run away from home to this wild, beautiful place to make a decision that is, for her, truly a matter of life and death. Sarah is pursued by Jack, her distraught husband, who is desperate to find her on these hills before it is too late. Will he make it in time? Volunteers on the cliff edge patrol for people to save, but the number of men and women going over has ominously increased of late . . . Does the secret lie with the Keeper who lives alone in the old lighthouse, a few steps from the four hundred foot drop in this gorgeous, terrifying place? The radiance has gone from his llife, but we do not know how or why. MY REVIEW A touching and emotional story of loss, death, and grief, THE LIGHT KEEPER by Cole Moreton was completely unexpected and is the type of story that stays fresh in your mind. Sarah is missing and Jack is desperate to find her before it is too late. Both will come into contact with The Keeper, a man who lives in a dilapidated old lighthouse where he shuts himself away and mourns in his own way. Can those who need it find a way to look towards the light on the horizon or has the darkness taken hold for too long? This book deals with a lot of deeply emotional and sensitive issues such as infertility, grief, loss, abuse, and depression so this may not suit every reader. Told in an almost lyrical fashion, this well-crafted piece of literary fiction slowly lured me on as I read each page and the setting is very special and really comes alive. THE LIGHT KEEPER by Cole Moreton is not a quick, easy read, but a complex story displaying an array of life's hardest emotions and is sure to please fans of this genre. AUTHOR BIO Cole Moreton is a writer and broadcaster exploring who we are and what we believe in. His BBC Radio 4 series The Boy Who Gave His Heart Away won multiple awards including Best Documentary in the BBC Radio Awards, Best Writing at the World’s Best Radio Awards in New York and gold for Audio Moment of the Year at the Arias. Cole writes for the Mail on Sunday and was named Interviewer of the Year at the Press Awards 2016, then shortlisted again in 2018. His work has appeared in the Financial Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph and The Sunday Times, and many other. The first of Cole’s non-fiction books was Hungry For Home: A Journey To America From The Edge Of Ireland and published by Viking in 2000. This combination of journalism, travelogue and dramatised true events told the story of the evacuation of the Great Blasket Island in County Kerry and followed the journey taken by the islanders to new lives in the United States. It was shortlisted for the prestigious John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for a first book in any genre. His second book was called My Father Was A Hero (Viking) and told the story of the men and women who returned home to London after WW2 but could not handle peace time. His third book Is God Still An Englishman? How Britain Lost Its Faith (But Found New Soul) was published by Little, Brown. It explores the dramatic changes in British culture and spirituality over the last 30 years and celebrates the possibilities for the future. His fourth book was a retelling of the story of The Boy Who Gave His Heart Away for HarperCollins. His debut novel The Light Keeper will be published in August 2019. For more information: Website - colemoreton.com Twitter - twitter.com/ColeMoreton Facebook - www.facebook.com/ColeMoretonwriter/ Instagram - www.instagram.com/colemoreton/
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