, Smart Girls Get What They Want, The Cinderella Pact (which became the Lifetime Original Movie Lying to Be Perfect), The Sleeping Beauty Proposal, The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives, Sweet Love, and the Bubbles mystery series. Her latest book is Do I Know You?.
[The Page 69 Test: This Is My Brain on Boys; My Book, The Movie: This Is My Brain on Boys; Writers Read: Sarah Strohmeyer (May 2016).]
At CrimeReads Strohmeyer tagged seven novels set in ominous salt-water locales, including:
The Lamplighters by Emma StonexRead about another entry on the list.
The sea giveth and the sea taketh away, but, mostly, in Emma Stonex’s spectacular literary suspense novel, it taketh away. Men, children, joy, none is spared from the ocean’s capricious wrath as it torments the inhabitants of yet another rocky island. This time the setting is south of Cornwall, England, where alighthouse—The Maiden—stands surrounded by the small cottages of the lamplighters’ families—women and children who daily slog through the monotony of confined living and the petty tensions of close quarters while keeping an eye on the fickle sea.
Based on the true story of missing lamplighters from a lighthouse in the Hebrides at the turn of the last century, Stonex has moved the men’s disappearance to the 1970s so women left behind can be interviewed twenty years later. What happened to the three men? Why were the clocks stopped, the tables set and the lighthouse locked? These questions drive the plot, but Stonex’s lyrical prose which summons the brininess of the sea and crashing waves, will linger long after the mystery is solved.
Q&A with Emma Stonex.
--Marshal Zeringue
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