She has won numerous awards, including the Whitbread First Novel Award, the John Llewelyn Rhys Prze, and the E. Jeanette Winterson is the author of eight novels, a short-story collection, a book of essays, and a children s picture book. she achieves a quality that justly can be called visionary.' Los Angeles Times 'Winterson weaves a beautiful and coherent tapestry. 'Intimate, romantic, elegant and charmingly literary, Winterson s new novel is a poetic narrative that reaffirms the power of storytelling to provide hope when times are most desperate, and to give life-and light-when matters seem most dark.' Atlanta Journal-Constitution but about narrative itself, and the ways in which life refuses to conform to the boundaries of a story, just as desire rebels at the limits of the world.' Village Voice 'Pew's yarns, and later Silver's, are not just about love and loss. For Silver, Dark s life becomes a map through her own darkness, into her own story, and finally, into love. Dark lives two lives: a public one mired in darkness and deceit, and a private one bathed in the light of passionate love.

Pew tells Silver stories of Babel Dark, a nineteenth-century clergyman. Pew, the mysterious and miraculously old keeper of a lighthouse on the Scottish coast. I was born part precious metal part pirate.'), an orphaned girl who is taken in by the blind Mr. Lighthousekeeping tells the tale of Silver ('My mother called me Silver. One of the most original and extraordinary writers of her generation, Jeanette Winterson has created a modern fable about the transformative power of storytelling.įrom the Back Cover 'An inspired meditation on myth and language.' - The New Yorker For Silver, Dark's life becomes a map through her own darkness, into her own story, and, finally, into love. Dark lived two lives: a public one mired in darkness and deceit and a private one bathed in the light of passionate love.

I was born part precious metal, part pirate.'), an orphaned girl who is taken in by blind Mr. About the Book Silver, an orphaned girl, is taken in by the mysterious old keeper of a lighthouse on the Scottish coast, who tells her stories about a 19th-century clergyman who lived two lives: a public one mired in darkness and deceit and a private one bathed in the light of passionate love.īook Synopsis Lighthousekeeping tells the tale of Silver ('My mother called me Silver.