The Lightkeeper's Daughter

The Lightkeeper's Daughter

Here is a story of family love and loss and the courage to rebuild after tragedy, about a time and place that feels both very real and mystical. Richly told and beautifully rendered, Hannah’s story will touch your heart and leave you with a new-found gratitude for those who so courageously serve.” - Deborah Wiles, author of Each Little Bird That Sings Lake Superior, 1910: A family torn apart by loss. A coastline claiming boats and sailors alike. A girl desperate to save them. As a lightkeeper’s daughter, Hannah Colfax knows the dangers of the Great Lakes. But when her father takes over as Keeper at Whitefish Point, she finds herself along a stretch of shoreline so treacherous that it’s known as Shipwreck Coast. And with her family’s recent loss, the dangers loom closer than ever. While struggling to find her footing in this new place, Hannah discovers a strength within herself and a growing willingness to fight surging water, devastating storms, and drifting ice in order to save those most at risk. But it is her family that needs saving most of all. Jennifer Guyor Jowett’s The Lightkeeper’s Daughter is a vivid and tensely paced novel in verse. I love this book. The storytelling is lovingly crafted, as finely wrought as a Dickinson poem, as precise as an arrow to the heart. We have re-entered a startling new world of voicing tales and fables and legends and yarns, reminiscent of Icelandic sagas, glorious and magnificent, and Jennifer Guyor Jowett is daringly leading the way forward. - William Florence, author of the Max Blake series