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The Alphabet of Light and Dark by Danielle Wood

24 February 2017 adminContemporary

By Danielle Wood

Melding own, familial, and colonial background, this evocative novel explores the significance of affection, kinfolk, and self-discovery. a number of trinkets present in a sea chest and the fragmented thoughts of her grandfather's tall stories are all Essie Lewis has left of her relations historical past. After her grandfather's demise, Essie returns to Bruny Island, Tasmania, and to the lighthouse the place her great-great-grandfather stored look ahead to approximately forty years. underneath the lighthouse, she starts to write down the tales of her ancestors. however the island is additionally domestic to Pete Shelverton, a sculptor who hunts feral cats to make his personal peace with the previous. As Essie writes, she reveals that Pete is part of the background she will be able to by no means escape.

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We wouldn’t be able do that sort of stuff nowadays. Pete knew that wasn’t true. He could have said, but chose not to, it was only that most people had never been desperate enough to find out how cruel they really were. And, besides, cruelty took many forms. These days, the oceans were littered with fishing boats that ripped the shit out of the fishery and starved the seals. It was just another way of doing the same thing. His best souvenirs from the island are above the fireplace. Two tanned cat skins, nailed taut on the splintering wall.

Essie looked at it, and looked away. She didn’t think that she could be wrong. The girl’s broad forehead, the straight nose which was just a bit too big for the rest of her face, the straight pale lips, were all hers. The only difference was in the eyebrows. Essie’s were darker than her fair hair. This child’s were invisibly white. May came back into the living room with a tea tray and Essie flushed, caught out. ‘It’s a postcard. “The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter” it was called. Almost famous. ’ May compared the two faces.

But she has brought her own tea pot and cup, all the way from Perth, wrapped in tea towels inside her pack. The tea pot is china blue, painted with cottonwool puffs of cloud. The matching cup is the shape of a single hemisphere, the milky white of its inside marked with a delicate mosaic of shatterlines. She found the pair in a second-hand shop, and liked O  Final Pages 14/5/2003 14/5/03 3:08 PM Page 49 The Alphabet of Light and Dark the way the wide cup fitted into the curve of her palms. The gathering clouds on the blue backdrop made her think of a storm in a tea cup.

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