Caught in her own particular darknesses, she embarks on an Ulyssean sift through the stories we tell ourselves, stories of love and loss, of passion and longing, stories of unending journeys that move through places and times, and the bleak finality of the shores of betrayal.

One life, Babel Dark's, a 19th century clergyman, opens like a map that Silver must follow. Pew tells Silver ancient tales of longing and rootlessness, of ties that bind and of the slippages that occur throughout every life. Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse. Motherless and anchorless, Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine slightly sunned, some old chocolate (?) splashes to front jacket, very slight lean, not price clipped (£15.00), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, IN PURPLE PEN, ON TITLE PAGE 'To Emma Jeanette Winterson'. First edition, subsequent impression with number line '3 5 7 9 20 8 6 4 2'. Jacket by Julian Humphries (illustrator). 'In her sea-soaked and hypnotic eighth novel, Winterson turns the tale of an orphaned young girl and a blind old man into a fable about love and the power of storytelling…Atmospheric and elusive, Winterson's high-modernist excursion is an inspired meditation on myth and language.Hardcover. Forster Awards, the author of Oranges are Not the Only Fruit Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? and other acclaimed works. It's one that Silver must follow if she's to be led through her own darkness, and to find her own meaning in life, in this novel by a winner of the Costa, Lambda, and E.M. Pew's story within a story within a story soon unfolds like a map. Peopled with such luminaries as Charles Darwin and Robert Louis Stevenson, Mr. The tale he has to tell Silver is that of a nineteenth-century clergyman named Babel Dark, whose life was divided between a loving light and a mask of deceit. Pew-blind, as old and legendary as a unicorn, and a yarn spinner of persuasive power.

Taken in by the mysterious keeper of a lighthouse on Cape Wrath, Silver finds an anchor in Mr. After her mother is literally swept away by the savage winds off the Atlantic coast of Salts, Scotland, never to be seen again, the orphaned Silver is feeling particularly unmoored. An orphaned girl is held spellbound by the tales of a lighthouse keeper on the Scottish coast, in a novel by the Costa Award-winning author of The Passion.

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