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Also by Hazel Gaynor:

Before Dorothy, June 2025
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Christmas with the Queen, November 2024
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The Last Lifeboat, June 2023
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Three Words for Goodbye, August 2021
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When We Were Young & Brave, October 2020
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Meet Me in Monaco, August 2019
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The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter, October 2018
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Last Christmas in Paris, October 2017
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The Cottingley Secret, August 2017
Paperback / e-Book
The Girl from Savoy, June 2016
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A Memory Of Violets, February 2015
Paperback / e-Book
The Girl Who Came Home, April 2014
Paperback / e-Book

THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER'S DAUGHTER
By: Hazel Gaynor

William Morrow
October 2018
On Sale: October 9, 2018
416 pages
ISBN: 0062869302
EAN: 9780062869302
Kindle: B075WQLV9Q
Paperback / e-Book
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Historical | Fiction Family Life

From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years.

“They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. I am just an ordinary young woman who did her duty.”

1838: Northumberland, England. Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands has been Grace Darling’s home for all of her twenty-two years. When she and her father rescue shipwreck survivors in a furious storm, Grace becomes celebrated throughout England, the subject of poems, ballads, and plays. But far more precious than her unsought fame is the friendship that develops between Grace and a visiting artist. Just as George Emmerson captures Grace with his brushes, she in turn captures his heart.

1938: Newport, Rhode Island. Nineteen-years-old and pregnant, Matilda Emmerson has been sent away from Ireland in disgrace. She is to stay with Harriet, a reclusive relative and assistant lighthouse keeper, until her baby is born. A discarded, half-finished portrait opens a window into Matilda’s family history. As a deadly hurricane approaches, two women, living a century apart, will be linked forever by their instinctive acts of courage and love.