When circumstances force Silver to set out on her own, she becomes a storyteller as well.Winterson's writing is beautiful, often magical, and the interwoven plots are both quiet and compelling. Pew claims that both visited his lighthouse, and their meetings with Babel Dark both opened possibilities and created conflicts within him. Among the "real" persons who inhabit the stories are Robert Louis Stevenson and Charles Darwin. The two of them bond over Pew's wonderful stories of his ancestors and of Babel Dark, minister and son of a town founder who led a mysterious double life. There have always been Pews keeping this lighthouse, he tells her, and Pew plans for Silver to take over when he passes on. When an accident leaves Silver orphaned, the only person willing to take her in is Pew, the blind, elderly lighthouse keeper. I rarely reread books, but I think I'll be returning to 'Lighthousekeeping.'Outcast from the Scottish town of Salts after becoming pregnant out of wedlock, a woman and her daughter Silver move into an unstable house cut into the side of the rocky coast. Still, I decided to give this little book a chance, and I'm vert glad that I did. It leaned towards magical realism, a genre I'm not fond of, and I gave up on it. I tried to read one of Janette Winterson's books several years ago but gave up on it.
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