From one of Britain's best-loved literary novelists comes a magical lyrical tale of the young orphan Silver taken in by the ancient lighthousekeeper Mr. Pew who reveals to her a world of myth & mystery through the art of storytelling. Motherless & anchorless Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr. Pew keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse. Pew tells Silver ancient tales of longing & rootlessness of the slippages that occur throughout every life. One life Babel Dark's a nineteenth-century clergyman opens like a map that Silver must follow & the intertwining of myth & reality of storytelling & experience lead her through her own particular darkness. A story of mutability talking birds & stolen books of Darwin & Stevenson & of the Jekyll & Hyde in all of us Lighthousekeeping is a way into the most secret recesses of our own hearts & minds. Jeanette Winterson is one of the most extraordinary & original writers of her generation & this shows her at her lyrical best.