Publisher's Synopsis
Winterson is one of the most extraordinary and original writers of her generation and LIGHTHOUSEKEEPING shows her at her lyrical best. Motherless and anchorless, Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse. Pew tells Silver ancient tales of longing and rootlessness, of ties that bind and the slippages that occur throughout every life. And one of his tales, the life of Babel Dark, opens like a map that Silver must follow...
