The release date for the English version of 'The Lamplighters' by
Emma Stonex is Mar 2022. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Gorgeous and atmospheric tale about the inexplicable disappearance of three lighthouse keepers from a distant tower miles from the Cornish shore, and about the wives who were left behind, inspired by a chilling true story.
What peculiar destiny awaited these tragic men? The weighty ocean murmurs their names. Below the surface, black rocks roll, drowning spirits. And the salt-scratched tower rises lonely and majestic from the swell like a finger of light.
A boat arrives at Maiden Rock lighthouse on New Year's Eve, 1972, much to the relief of the personnel. Still, no one waves at them. Rescuers discover an empty tower when they break through the entrance door, which is locked from the inside. A supper is set out that will never be consumed. Although there has been a storm raging around the tower, according to the Principal Keeper's weather journal, the sky have been clear all week. And at 8:45, all the clocks had stopped.
Twenty years later, a writer who is committed to uncovering the truth of the men's disappearance pays a visit to the women who were left behind. We piece together what occurred, why it happened, and who to believe by alternating between the accounts of the women and the men's final weeks spent together in the lighthouse. Long-kept secrets come to light and truths become falsehoods.
Emma Stonex tells a tale of obsession and solitude, truth and delusion, and what it takes to keep the light burning when everything else is engulfed in darkness in her gripping and thrilling book.