Light Keeping

Author: Adrienne Jansen

"The beam of a lighthouse - bringing hope, knowledge and safety in dark and uncertain places. But what if the lighthouse keeper himself is lost? In 1977, in the shelter of a remote Aotearoa lighthouse, Annie wraps her arms around her two orphaned grandchildren. Her husband Bill, the keeper, shares old stories of the sea, sailors and the son he has lost, broken himself but doing what he can to help the children navigate their new lives. But how secure can they all be, with the looming threat of lighthouse closures and automation? Forty years later, those grandchildren are adrift again, disconnected from each other and the lighthouse home that once anchored them. Buffeted by life, Jess and Robert find themselves drawn back towards the past, their grandfather's stories and the world of the sea"--Publisher information.