The alphabet of light and dark
By: Danielle Wood.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Crows Nest, NSW
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Lighthouses -- Fiction.; Grandfathers -- Fiction.; Sculptors -- Fiction.; Bruny Island (Tas.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: After her grandfather's death, Essie Lewis returns to Bruny Island, Tasmania, and to the lighthouse where her great-great-grandfather kept watch for nearly forty years. Beneath the lighthouse she begins to write the stories of her ancestors. But the island is also home to Pete Shelverton and, as Essie writes, she finds that Pete is a part of the history she can never escape.