Thank you to Love Books Tours for giving me the chance to review The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter by Cherry Radford
Blurb
After the break-up of her marriage, Imogen escapes to her aunt’s converted lighthouse on Beachy Head. Writing for a tedious online magazine but hoping to start a novel, she wants to be alone until she finds an entrancing flamenco CD in her borrowed car and contacts the artist via Twitter. It turns out that actor-musician Santiago needs help with English, and is soon calling her profesora.Through her window, the other lighthouse winks at her across the sea. The one where her father was a keeper until he mysteriously drowned there in 1982. Her aunt is sending extracts from his diary, and Imogen is intrigued to learn that, like her and Santi, her father had a penfriend.Meanwhile, despite their differences, Imogen is surrounded by emotional and geographical barriers, Santi surrounded by family and land-locked Madrid their friendship develops. So, she reads, did her father’s but shocking revelations cause Imogen to question whether she ever really knew him.Two stories of communication: the hilarious mistakes, the painful misunderstandings, and the miracle or tragedy of finding someone out there with whom you have an unforeseen, irresistible connection.
Review
What a wonderful read this was, I was completely lost in it. It was captivating throughout with plenty of ups and downs. It was a well crafted novel that I thoroughly enjoyed and I look forward to reading more from Cherry Radford
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Authors Bio
Cherry Radford was a piano teacher at the Royal Ballet Junior School, a keyboard player in a band, and then a research optometrist at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. She now lives in Eastbourne, UK and Almería, Spain. Her third novel, The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter, publishes April 2018.
WEBSITE: http://www.cherryradford.co.uk
BLA BLA LAND BLOG: https://cherryradforddotblog.wordpress.com
TWITTER: @CherryRad my
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