Lighthouse Bay in Aussie Readers

Jun 11, 2013 Marg rated it it was amazing

Shelves: aww2013

Libby Slater is in mourning. Her lover of 12 years has died but she can't really openly mourn because she was the other woman, his mistress. Realising that she needed to make some changes to her life, she decides to return to the small town that she grew up in. Her lover, Mark Winterbourne, had bought a home in the town years before but Libby had always been reluctant to visit, mainly due to her fractured family relationships. Now there is just her sister left but after Libby left the small town ...more

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Oct 12, 2012 Kathryn rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 4-stars, fiction, australian-authors

I enjoyed this. The story kept me interested and I read it really quickly. It follows a woman in 1901 on her way out to Australia who is shipwrecked just north of Brisbane, and a woman in 2011 who is grieving the loss of her married lover and moves to Lighthouse Bay to take stock of her life and try to rebuild a relationship with her estranged sister. The women's stories overlap because of family ties and an object lost in 1901 and recovered in 2011.

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Dec 19, 2012 Kate Forsyth rated it it was amazing

Shelves: parallel-narratives, historical, australian, contemporary

Lighthouse Bay begins in 1901, with a woman – the only survivor of a shipwreck - dragging a chest full of treasure down a deserted beach. The narrative then moves to contemporary times, with a woman secretly grieving at the funeral of her married lover. These two women – Isabella Winterbourne and Libby Slater – are joined through time by a lighthouse and its secrets and mysteries. I raced through this compelling and intriguing book, utterly unable to put it down. Fabulous rollicking read.

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