Review:
"The heart of this novel is a place described so finely and beguilingly that everyone who reads it will want to go to Ellan Bride." Helen Dunmore, The Times "Fuses history and fantasy into an exuberantly clever romp, swathed in the mist and spray of northern seas." Boyd Tonkin, Independent "Elphinstone's sense of place, time and atmosphere make for eerie reading and give the novel an impressive authenticity." Scotland on Sunday "This is true experimental writing: careless of taboo, teeming with ideas, elusive yet utterly controlled." Guardian "Elphinstone's sense of place, time and atmosphere make for eerie reading and give the novel an impressive authenticity... breathtaking." Vanessa Curtis, Scotland on Sunday"
From the Author:
"Light, set in the 1830s, brings surveyors, imbued with the confidence of Enlightenment Edinburgh, to build a new lighthouse on a remote island. There they discover the women maintaining the old light have values rooted in other times and places and a different perspective on ‘progress’. For the island children the ensuing conflict is both an adventure and an introduction to other worlds, geographical and emotional." Margaret Elphinstone
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