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The lightkeeper's wife

Viggers, Karen2011

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Elderly and in poor health, Mary fulfils her wish to live out her last days on Bruny Island. A long time ago, her late husband was the lighthousekeeper on Bruny, and she'd raised a family on the wild windswept island, until terrible circumstances forced them back to civilisation. Her youngest son Tom, wounded by divorce and isolated from life, loves Bruny as much as his mother does. He can understand her primal connection to that wild island, a place of solitude, healing and redemption for them both. A woman at the end of her life. A man unable to restart his. As Mary's time winds down, both she and Tom must face their pasts in ways they cannot even begin to imagine.