The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter: A Novel

From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years. 1838: Northumberland, England.

Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands has been Grace Darling’s home for all of her twenty-two years.

When she and her father rescue shipwreck survivors in a furious storm, Grace becomes celebrated throughout England, the subject of poems, ballads, and plays. 1938: Newport, Rhode Island.

Nineteen-years-old and pregnant, Matilda Emmerson has been sent away from Ireland in disgrace.

She is to stay with Harriet, a reclusive relative and assistant lighthouse keeper, until her baby is born.