On the highest point of an island, in a house clinging to the edge of a cliff, live Mary Rose and Harold Grapes, a retired couple still mourning the death of their son thirty-five years before. Weighed down by decades of grief and memories, the Grapeses have never moved past the tragedy. Then, on the eve of eviction from the most beautiful and dangerously unstable perch in the area, they're uprooted by a violent storm. The disbelieving Grapeses and their home take a free-fall slide into the white-capped sea and float away.
As the past that once moored them recedes and disappears, Mary Rose and Harold are delivered from decades of sorrow by the ebb and flow of the waves. Ahead of them, a light shimmers on the horizon, guiding them toward a revelatory and cathartic new engagement with life, and all its wonder.
Wildly imaginative, deeply poignant, and entirely unexpected, Lights on the Sea sweeps readers away on a journey of fate, acceptance, redemption, and survival against the most rewarding of odds.
*** [It all began with a bolt of lightning] ***(AmazonCrossing, 25 September 2018, first published 31 August 2016, ebook, 272 pages, Kindle Owner's Lending Library)
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I adored this book, absolutely loved every word of it. I chose the book at random because I liked the cover and the plot intrigued me. I'm so glad I did. Lights on the Sea is a beautiful tale, a book that's hard to define, part myth, part love story, partly a book about grief and sometimes being unable to move on and most of all, a book filled with hope. Lights on the Sea made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. I loved Mr and Mrs Grapes. The pain they feel so many years after their son's death was heart-breaking to experience. There are magical, almost mythical elements to the story as well, as Mary Rose and Harold encounter some amazing things on the journey that could so easily have killed them. Lights on the Sea is a beautiful little fable.
