The Lamplighters: A Novel is an eerie, beautifully crafted story inspired by the real-life disappearance of three lighthouse keepers from a remote tower off the Cornish coast.

On New Year’s Eve, 1972, a relief boat arrives at the Maiden Rock lighthouse. The door is locked from the inside, the table is set for an uneaten meal, the Principal Keeper’s log speaks of a fierce storm that never came, and every clock has stopped at 8:45. The men are gone without a trace.

Two decades later, a writer determined to uncover the truth seeks out the wives the keepers left behind. As he listens to their memories and follows the men’s final weeks in the tower, long-buried secrets surface and perspectives collide, blurring the line between reality and illusion.

Blending psychological suspense with an intimate portrait of marriage, grief, and obsession, the novel explores isolation at sea and on shore, and what it means to keep a light burning when everything else is swallowed by darkness.

Features

• Atmospheric mystery set on a remote Cornish lighthouse
• Interwoven timelines from 1972 and the decades that follow
• Focus on the inner lives of the keepers and their wives
• Themes of isolation, obsession, memory, and truth

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