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Victoria · 06-03-2020, 04:04 PM

Hi everyone. I intended to rejoin last month, but just couldn’t settle into reading. So I hope late is better than never

I nominate We Keep a Light, by Evelyn M. Richardson.

Born Evelyn May Fox (1902–1976), she was a Canadian author who won the Governor General's Award in non-fiction for her 1945 memoir. The book is short - only 169 pages. But I’ve had it recommended to me many times, and have been told it’s well done.

From Kobo:

We Keep A Light is the inspiring story of how the author and her husband bought tiny Bon Portage Island and built a happy life for themselves and their three children on the isolated lighthouse station off the southern tip of Nova Scotia. But it is much more than the story of a unique personal experience. We Keep A Light is a freshly written and engrossing record of family life set against the ever-changing background of the sea, the vagaries of the weather, the enduring shores, and the great beacon light, all of which become important characters in this fascinating and isolated world. As Evelyn Richardson remarked in the original edition, she wrote the book "partly to answer the polite incredulity I face when I say 'No, we aren't lonely, we like the island.'" We Keep A Light transports readers back to a simpler era when lighthouses were very much a part of the Maritime way of life. As fresh today as when it first appeared, this classic preserves the past in both remembrance and written word.

It’s available from Overdrive.

Kobo: $9.57 CA; $14.07 AUD; $9.59 US; £7.43 Uk
Kindle: $7.36 US

06-03-2020, 04:04 PM	#25
Victoria Wizard Posts: 1,017 Karma: 19767610 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Nova Scotia Canada Device: ipad, Kindle PW, Kobo Clara; iphone 7	Hi everyone. I intended to rejoin last month, but just couldn’t settle into reading. So I hope late is better than never I nominate We Keep a Light, by Evelyn M. Richardson. Born Evelyn May Fox (1902–1976), she was a Canadian author who won the Governor General's Award in non-fiction for her 1945 memoir. The book is short - only 169 pages. But I’ve had it recommended to me many times, and have been told it’s well done. From Kobo: We Keep A Light is the inspiring story of how the author and her husband bought tiny Bon Portage Island and built a happy life for themselves and their three children on the isolated lighthouse station off the southern tip of Nova Scotia. But it is much more than the story of a unique personal experience. We Keep A Light is a freshly written and engrossing record of family life set against the ever-changing background of the sea, the vagaries of the weather, the enduring shores, and the great beacon light, all of which become important characters in this fascinating and isolated world. As Evelyn Richardson remarked in the original edition, she wrote the book "partly to answer the polite incredulity I face when I say 'No, we aren't lonely, we like the island.'" We Keep A Light transports readers back to a simpler era when lighthouses were very much a part of the Maritime way of life. As fresh today as when it first appeared, this classic preserves the past in both remembrance and written word. It’s available from Overdrive. Kobo: $9.57 CA; $14.07 AUD; $9.59 US; £7.43 Uk Kindle: $7.36 US Last edited by Victoria; 06-03-2020 at 04:27 PM.