Letters from the Lighthouse

Author(s): Emma Carroll

Fiction (8 to 12 years) | AP Genre List

We weren't supposed to be going to the pictures that night. We weren't even meant to be outside, not in a blackout, and definitely not when German bombs had been falling on London all month like pennies from a jar. February, 1941. After months of bombing raids in London, twelve-year-old Olive Bradshaw and her little brother Cliff are evacuated to the Devon coast. The only person with two spare beds is Mr Ephraim, the local lighthouse keeper. But he's not used to company and he certainly doesn't want any evacuees. Desperate to be helpful, Olive becomes his post-girl, carrying secret messages (as she likes to think of the letters) to the villagers. But Olive has a secret of her own. Her older sister Sukie went missing in an air raid, and she's desperate to discover what happened to her. And then she finds a strange coded note which seems to link Sukie to Devon, and to something dark and impossibly dangerous.


Product Information

From the queen of historical fiction, Letters From the Lighthouse by Emma Carroll is a stunningly evocative wartime drama, and sure to keep you breathlessly reading to its very last page

Emma Carroll was a secondary school English teacher for many years. Letters from the Lighthouse is Emma's sixth novel; she has also written the highly-acclaimed Frost Hollow Hall, The Girl Who Walked on Air, In Darkling Wood, The Snow Sister and Strange Star. She lives in the Somerset hills with her husband and two terriers.

General Fields

  • : 9780571327584
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
  • : 0.276691
  • : June 2017
  • : 198mm X 128mm X 20mm
  • : April 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Emma Carroll
  • : Paperback
  • : 1708
  • : English
  • : 823.92
  • : 288