Blurb from the Book Cape Wrath lighthouse.  Pew tells Silver ancient tales of longing and rootlessness, of ties that bind and of the slippages that occur throughout every life.Motherless and anchorless Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr Pew, keeper of the   One life, Babel Dark’s a nineteenth-century clergyman opens like a map, that Silver must follow.  Caught in her own particular darkness, she embarks on a Ulyssean sift through the stories we tell ourselves, stories love and loss, of passion and longing, stories of unending journeys that move through places and times and the bleak finality of the shores of betrayal.

I thought this rather a strange book.  Lighthousekeeping is a book about stories.  I liked the start of the book and I liked the stories but somewhere along the way I got lost and was not sure what was happening.  This is the first Jeanette Winterson book that I have read so I don’t know if this style is typical of her or not. It is a very short book so I managed to finish it and I am glad that I did, but I don’t think this was for me.