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The Blackwater Lightship

3.9/5 ( ratings)

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

Pages: 273

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Picador

Release: September 01, 2006

ISBN: 0330389866

ISBN 13: 9780330389860

The Blackwater Lightship

3.9/5 ( ratings)

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

Pages: 273

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Picador

Release: September 01, 2006

ISBN: 0330389866

ISBN 13: 9780330389860

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