Letters from the Lighthouse by Emma Carroll

Is their luck about to change? In anticipation of a better Christmas, Pearl goes to beg credit at Mr Noble's grocery to get ingredients for a Christmas pudding. It makes Christmas feel a little less lonely.On Christmas Eve, her father receives a letter about a long-lost relative's will. Alice feels at home there, at peace, and even finds a friend, Flo.Įver since her sister, Agnes, died, Pearl has a tradition every time it snows.

There's nothing good about staying with Nell, except for the beautiful Darkling Wood at the end of her garden - but Nell wants to have it cut down. When Alice's brother gets a longed-for chance for a heart transplant, Alice is suddenly bundled off to her estranged grandmother's house. A terrific evocation of the privations of wartime the children are obsessed with food, falling avidly upon delicacies such as jam. At the point of death, a beautiful angel appears in the water and saves her. Billeted in a lighthouse, the pair are mired in mysteries. The ice breaks, Tilly falls through and almost drowns. But Tilly never turns down a dare.Then it goes horribly wrong. Ten years ago the young heir, Kit Barrington, drowned there in the lake. Will's at the door of their cottage, daring her to come ice-skating up at Frost Hollow Hall. But he's not used to company and he certainly doesn't want any evacuees. The only person with two spare beds is Mr Ephraim, the local lighthouse keeper. We weren't supposed to be going to the pictures that night. After months of bombing raids in London, twelve-year-old Olive Bradshaw and her little brother Cliff are evacuated to the Devon coast. From the queen of historical fiction, Letters From the Lighthouse by Emma Carroll is a stunningly evocative wartime drama, and sure to keep you breathlessly reading to its very last page. Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatchedįebruary, 1941.

Letters from the Lighthouse by Emma Carroll