2022/65: The Lamplighters -- Emma Stonex

2022/65: The Lamplighters -- Emma Stonex

She thought of it as falling. Weightless. Disbelieving. Waiting to be caught but nobody ever did, for years and years and on it went and down she fell and there were no resolutions, no clarity or closure. [p. 22]

Last year's other novel about inexplicably-abandoned lighthouses: I loved Natasha Pulley's The Kingdoms inordinately, and hestitated to read this for fear of dissonant overlap. But the territory is quite different.( Read more... )