title: Breaking Light
author:  Karin Altenberg 
description: "A gripping and extraordinary story."<b><i>Michael Holroyd</i></b><br /><br />"Marvelous . . . shimmers with beauty and wisdom."<b><i><i>Spectator</i></i></b><br /><br />"Altenberg has a knack for gleaming description . . . Haunting and intimate."<b><i><i>Sunday Herald<br /></i></i></b><br /><br />"[Altenberg] posses an acute grasp of the courage needed for an aging mind to open itself...for all the novel's despair, it's born up by conviction that things once broken can be restored."<b><i><i><b>Wall Street Journal</b></i></i></b><br /><br />"This is a story of friendship, trust and betrayal. Gut wrenching"<b><i><b><i>For the Love of Books</i></b></i></b><br /><br />"Complex and meditative . . . Alternberg nicely balances thought-provoking questions and embeds them - along with the beautiful Dartmoor landscapes - deep into the reader's mind." <br /><b><i><b>Curled Up With A Good Book<br /></b></i></b>
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  # [Dedication](part0002.html#nde1)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  To all those who have experienced hurt,
  
  
  and then dared to hope, dared to forgive, dared to live.
  
  
  You are proof that light will always prevail.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Cover](kindle:embed:0002?mime=image/jpg)
  
  
  * [Title Page](part0000.html#title-page)
  
  
  * [Dedication](part0001.html#de1)
  
  
  * [Contents](part0002.html#1T140-95c3c8f532ec4d4aae7396561c6c894c)
  
  
  * [Aside](part0003.html#pr2)
  
  
  * [1](part0004.html#ch3)
  
  
  * [2](part0005.html#ch4)
  
  
  * [3](part0006.html#ch5)
  
  
  * [4](part0007.html#ch6)
  
  
  * [5](part0008.html#ch7)
  
  
  * [6](part0009.html#ch8)
  
  
  * [7](part0010.html#ch9)
  
  
  * [8](part0011.html#ch10)
  
  
  * [9](part0012.html#ch11)
  
  
  * [10](part0013.html#ch12)
  
  
  * [11](part0014.html#ch13)
  
  
  * [12](part0015.html#ch14)
  
  
  * [13](part0016.html#ch15)
  
  
  * [14](part0017.html#ch16)
  
  
  * [15](part0018.html#ch17)
  
  
  * [16](part0019.html#ch18)
  
  
  * [17](par