Literary Fiction · novel · completed
The Salt Keeper
A lighthouse keeper on a dying island counts the ships that never come.
On the outermost rock of the Hebrides, Isla MacRae keeps a light that the Northern Board has already decided to switch off. When a half-drowned stranger washes ashore with a letter addressed to her late mother, the last winter on the island becomes the first of something else.
Literary FictionRomance
1950sScotlandMelancholicHopeful
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