title: Letters from the Lighthouse
author:  Emma Carroll 
description: Emma Carroll was a secondary school English teacher for many years. <i>Letters from the Lighthouse </i>is Emma's sixth novel; she has also written the highly-acclaimed <i>Frost Hollow Hall</i>, <i>The Girl Who Walked on Air</i>, <i>In Darkling Wood,</i> <i>The Snow Sister </i>and <i>Strange Star</i>. She lives in the Somerset hills with her husband and two terriers.
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  I’m not a great admirer of the sea. There’s too much of it from my point of
  view.
  
  
  —MAURICE OLIVER, lighthouse keeper
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  CONTENTS
  
  
  
  
  
  [Title Page](part0000.html#tit)
  
  
  [Copyright Notice](part0001.html#notice)
  
  
  [Dedication](part0002.html#ded)
  
  
  [Epigraph](part0003.html#epig)
  
  
  [Introduction](part0005.html#intro)
  
  
  1. [Embarkation](part0006.html#ch1)
  
  
  2. [Aboard](part0007.html#ch2)
  
  
  3. [Harbor](part0008.html#ch3)
  
  
  4. [Open Sea](part0009.html#ch4)
  
  
  5. [Sea and Suez](part0010.html#ch5)
  
  
  6. [High-Risk Area](part0011.html