![]() There is just much too much to not discuss. There is even so much to carry away from the experiences of Sarah, Harriet, and George. There is so much to carry away from Grace’s story and from Matilda’s story. I think dear friends that read this one together will have a great time discussing it. I think book clubs will absolutely love having this one as their pick. This is a book that I specifically want to put in the hands of several people that I KNOW will love it like I do. As Matilda nears the date for her own child’s birth, she realizes that her connection to her long lost cousin Harriet is much stronger than she initially thought. Matilda loves learning about Grace and Sarah, and the connection she has to these women, and Harriet is helpful with supplementing her knowledge. She knows that she is the great-great-granddaughter of a woman named Sarah, who was rescued by Grace Darling, a famous lighthouse keeper. Harriet is the local lighthouse keeper, and Matilda is fascinated with the job. Harriet teaches Matilda that she can make her own path in life, that she doesn’t have to carry the shame that her mother is trying to force on her because of her pregnancy. Harriet has a story of her own that fascinates Matilda, even though Harriet doesn’t share it easily. When Matilda meets her long lost cousin Harriet, sparks do not immediately fly, but the two eventually form a respectful relationship, then a close bond. Her mother wants her to “stay with a relative for a while” and leave the baby there, then return to Ireland. Grace and Sarah form a slow friendship after the tragic ordeal, and they find that they have a mutual acquaintance in common: Sarah’s brother George Emmerson, a local artist.Ībout a hundred years later, Matilda Emmerson has traveled from Ireland to America – Rhode Island, specifically – pregnant and alone. One of those pulled to safety is a woman named Sarah who tragically lost her two young children to the frigid waters. When a nasty storm rages, Grace and her father take a small boat out to collect survivors from the water and rocks, risking their own lives but finding that there only a small number of survivors from a ship that has broken up in the storm. Grace loves the quiet island life with her parents and is perfectly content to trade a “regular” life on the mainland in order to stay there and help them with the lighthouse. Grace’s father is the lighthouse keeper and she assists him in an unofficial capacity, keeping the light going in order to keep the sea waters safe. Grace Darling lives with her parents in a lighthouse in Northumberland, England. ![]() I think I’ll start by saying that Ms. Gaynor has used dual timelines and multiple points-of-view in this story structure and I think that is what helped me to be so completely sucked in to the point that I was moved to tears by the time that I got to the end. That feeling has turned into having a hard time forming my feelings into a review that makes any sense at all. I felt such a genuine reverence for every single character that I just had to sit still and quiet, hold my book, and absorb everywhere the story had taken them. When I finished The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter by Hazel Gaynor, I had such large feelings that I barely knew what to say. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. As a deadly hurricane approaches, two women, living a century apart, will be linked forever by their instinctive acts of courage and love. A discarded, half-finished portrait opens a window into Matilda’s family history. She is to stay with Harriet, a reclusive relative and assistant lighthouse keeper, until her baby is born. Nineteen-years-old and pregnant, Matilda Emmerson has been sent away from Ireland in disgrace. Just as George Emmerson captures Grace with his brushes, she in turn captures his heart.ġ938: Newport, Rhode Island. ![]() But far more precious than her unsought fame is the friendship that develops between Grace and a visiting artist. When she and her father rescue shipwreck survivors in a furious storm, Grace becomes celebrated throughout England, the subject of poems, ballads, and plays. Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands has been Grace Darling’s home for all of her twenty-two years. I am just an ordinary young woman who did her duty.”ġ838: Northumberland, England. “They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. ![]() Published by William Morrow on October 9, 2018īuy from Amazon| Buy from Barnes & Noble| Buy from Book Depositoryįrom The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years. The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter by Hazel Gaynor ![]()
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