Colm Toibin: The Blackwater Lightship [2008] paperback Condition:Like New Their encounter introduces an element

Their encounter introduces an element of mystery to the search for her roots

Gone are the houses

Alison Weir gives us her most compelling heroine yet

She was active in the field of creative writing since 1950

Following the demise of bloodthirsty buccaneer Captain Flint

Colm Toibin: The Blackwater Lightship [2008] paperback Condition:Like New Their encounter introduces an elementSet in Ireland in the 1990s, Colm Toibin's The Blackwater Lightship tells the story of the Devereux family. Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and her granddaughter Helen have come together after years of strife and reached an uneasy truce. Helen's adored brother Declan is dying. Two friends join him and the women in a crumbling old house by the sea, where the six of them, from different generations and with different beliefs, must listen and come to