Night Keeping - Paperback

by Melissa Pearson (Author)

It's a harsh peril, living on the ledge.

Off islands cliffs

Purest of isolation if you can imagine this

Posts along coasts; where men, women and their children grew up and lived.

Lighthouse positions taken, the men did and swore with oath and backed by law that any, under their guiding light, their helping hand they'd certainly give.

But there's more to heroics isn't there, some acts you just can't forget or forgive.

For the first time in over fifty years what can be shown is that one island wasn't at all a home. On it was a family that was by rightly frightened. One day their schemed escape was given secret inside guidance and with a man left behind his entire family alighted.

The back of him you think they have sighted but no, this man's search for their return onward goes and throws innocence and death to generations, of sorts that grows in shadows. It is a story in the wording voice of two who ought to know, they lived through.

And what they'll tell you is the truth, with the hope it's of some use.