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The Long Goodbye at Lanternhouse

By Elowen Vale

The Long Goodbye at Lanternhouse

By Elowen Vale

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I didn't intend to write a lighthouse.I intended to write a woman - the kind of woman who holds herself together so well that nobody notices the cracks, the kind who becomes "capable" simply because there is no other choice. I intended to write about grief - not the dramatic sort, but the slow, sedimentary kind. The kind that gathers in the corners of a life. The kind that becomes normal.But the sea has always insisted on being part of the story.I grew up in places where the weather could change its mind in a breath and where the coastline shaped people the way it shapes stone - gradually, relentlessly, beautifully. The sea teaches you patience. It teaches you fear. It teaches you reverence, because it does not care how good you are, how kind you are, how deserving you are. It takes what it takes.And yet... we keep coming back to it.I wanted to explore the strange inheritance of that. The way love can be fierce and flawed at the same time. The way families pass down silence like heirlooms. The way we learn to survive by becoming smaller - until something inside us finally demands to be seen.The Long Goodbye at Lanternhouse is a story about what is kept and what is returned.It is about memory. About loyalty. About the difference between leaving and escaping.And, perhaps most of all, it is about the light - the kind we think we are saving for someone else, only to discover we needed it too.Thank you for reading.Thank you for listening.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
108
Release Date:
2026-01-15
Publication Date:
2026-01-15
Publisher:
Kindred Quill Publishing
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN13:
9798233287206
Weight:
126 g
Height:
127 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
6 cm
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