Faced with constant sickness, death, and tons of misogyny, these women mould their own lives by taking matters into their own hands.
The entire book is a sweeping landscape of the time periods that these events are set in, and an intimate look into the lives of the women of these times. Her father is a reputed politician and her mother is cold as ice, and for these reasons, the only solution they can find to the ‘problem’ that is Matilda’s pregnancy, is to send her away, across the ocean, to a relative’s home in America. The reason for this is that Matilda is pregnant at the age of 19 and she is unwed. Although all the romantic sequences are long drawn out and can be boring at times, it is interesting to witness the transformation of a woman who would have otherwise spent her entire life caring for her ageing parents, now finding herself at the center of attention of the general public and on the receiving end of the courtship Dawson’s brother pursues her with.Ī century away, Matilda Emmerson finds herself stricken with changes, as she needs to move to Rhode Island from Ireland. The relationship between the two women becomes even more intertwined when the author introduces Dawson’s brother as Darling’s love interest. We live in an era where everyone has a smartphone and we keep tabs on our celebrities through the internet, but to read about the wild fervor with which Grace’s admirers flock after her, in an era before mass communication is intriguing, to say the least.Īmongst the people she rescues is the sole female survivor of the wreck, Sarah Dawson, who saw her children die before her eyes, in her arms. This is a really interesting detail to notice. She is astonished by the attention that she receives, with people wanting an actual piece of her with them, and teaming together to get a whiff of her perfume, steal a lock of her hair, or a bit of her skirt. Grace, the lighthouse keeper’s daughter, finds herself ridden with fame and celebrity when word is spread that she came to the aid of the survivors of the wreck and rescued them bravely.
We find ourselves first in the middle of the 19th century, when the SS Forfarshire finds itself along the rocks of Longstone Lighthouse, off the coast of Northumberland in 1838. The book revolves around two women, Grace Darling, and Matilda Emmerson. And if the lives your ancestors lived were anything close to the lives that the characters of this book have lived, then you’re in for quite an intriguing ancestry check. This is the kind of historical novel that makes you want to find out who your ancestors were and what kind of lives they lived, and if they were anything close to what you were expecting them to be. Hazel Gaynor is the author of the bestselling book The Girl Who Came Home, and The Girl From The Savoy, and in her latest offering, she presents us with a heroic tale of two women stuck in different points of time that are linked together by fate. The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter By Hazel Gaynor
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Today, we are here to discuss another read that transports us to the past but parallels it with the present that we live in to create an enticing book that is full of turmoil, strangeness, and hope. After all, there is a reason that even though technology has advanced so much, books have never gone obsolete.
You can go back thousands of years into an unknown future or centuries back, to the ancient times, all with the turn of a page. The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter Review – UPDATED 2019 Posted by VAuthor on in Book Reviewsīooks have the capability to transfer us across time and space while still being in the present.
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