Lighthousekeeping tells the tale of Silver ("My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious metal part pirate.") an orphaned girl who is taken in by blind Mr. Pew the mysterious and miraculously old keeper of a lighthouse on the Scottish coast. Pew tells Silver stories of Babel Dark a nineteenth-century clergyman. Dark lived two lives: a public one mired in darkness and deceit and a private one bathed in the light of passionate love. For Silver Dark's life becomes a map through her own darkness into her own story and finally into love. One of the most original and extraordinary writers of her generation Jeanette Winterson has created a modern fable about the transformative power of storytelling.
