num_pages: 273
description: In Blackwater in the early 1990s, three women - Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and her granddaughter Helen - have come together after years of strife and reached an uneasy truce. Helen's adored brother Declan is dying. Two friends join him and the women in a crumbling old house by the sea, where the six of them, from different generations and with different beliefs, must listen and come to terms with one another.
language: English
title: The Blackwater Lightship
titlecomplete: The Blackwater Lightship
genres: Fiction, Gay, Ireland, Contemporary, Irish Literature, Queer, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels, LGBT
ratings_count: 6737
places: Ireland
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Dublin Literary Award
category: Shortlist
publisher: Picador