The Instant International Bestseller
Winner of the 2018 Northern Lit Award and Shortlisted for the HWA
Crown Award
"Jean Pendziwol's beautifully written novel captured me from the very
first page. Its descriptions of the windswept lightkeeper's station of
Elizabeth's and Emily's youth are so crisply rendered I felt I was
standing on its shores watching the great ships cross the stormy waters
of Lake Superior. Even more than its vivid evocation of a unique time
and place, The Lightkeeper's Daughters is a sensitive and moving
examination of the nature of identity, the importance of family, and the
possibility of second chances." --Heather Young, author of The Lost
Girls
The Light Between Oceans meets The Language of Flowers in this
compelling debut novel by critically acclaimed children's author Jean E.
Pendziwol.
Though her mind is still sharp, Elizabeth's eyes have failed. No longer
able to linger over her beloved books or gaze at the paintings that move
her spirit, she fills the void with music and memories of her family--a
past that suddenly becomes all too present when her late father's
journals are found amid the ruins of an old shipwreck.
With the help of Morgan, a delinquent teenage performing community
service, Elizabeth goes through the diaries, a journey through time that
brings the two women closer together. Entry by entry, these unlikely
friends are drawn deep into a world far removed from their own--to
Porphyry Island on Lake Superior, where Elizabeth's father manned the
lighthouse seventy years before.
As the words on these musty pages come alive, Elizabeth and Morgan begin
to realize that their fates are connected to the isolated island in ways
they never dreamed. While the discovery of Morgan's connection sheds
light onto her own family mysteries, the faded pages of the journals
hold more questions than answers for Elizabeth, and threaten the very
core of who she is.
