title: Light: A Novel
author:  Margaret Elphinstone 
description: Elphinstone's inert ninth novel (following <i>Gato</i>) is set in 1831 on Ellan Bride isle, "hardly more than a rock with a strip of green, surrounded by the silvery sea," off the more populated Isle of Man. Lighthouse keeper Lucy inherited the jobat two-thirds salarywhen her brother Jim was killed in a storm five years earlier. Jim's India-born widow, Diya, has two children, Breesha and Mallay, growing up as siblings to Lucy's out-of-wedlock son, Billy. Lucy, scarred by past love, keeps the ancient lighthouse lit each night, as her brother and father did before her, while the educated Diya tends the garden and gathers puffins from their burrows, dreaming of her childhood in India. But when handsome, reserved Archibald Buchanan and his kind, assistant, Ben Groat, suddenly arrive to survey for a new lighthouse, the women face changes and choices. In alternating chapters, Elphinstone renders the solitude of the two women amid the salt air and crashing waves, along with the ambitions and fears of Archibald and Ben. Aiming for stark, the results are static. <i>(Feb.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  A Bright Lights Romance Novel
  
  
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  First published by Arthur's Publishing House 2019  
    
  Copyright © 2019 by Michelle Alstead  
    
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  This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents
  portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to
  actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Acknowledgement
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I would like to give my heartfelt gratitude to my dear cousin Judy who
  encouraged me to tell my story. Many thanks to Dr. Carla Gull for being a
  great