The Lightkeeper's Daughter (2007) - Plot & Excerpts
SHE looks over his shoulder, down at the book. The page that he’s reading is mottled with seawater stains. In places the letters are smudged by a spatter of drops that might have been spindrift or rain.She finds it strange to think of her son writing this. He was always so tidy and neat, but the words are a scrawl, as though he’d been furiously setting them down, trying to keep up with the whales.In effervescence the calves are bornin a phosphorescent seaSquid is watching Tatiana more closely than she ever has. She doesn’t seem happy with the place her daughter has chosen, a crease between the sand and thirty tons of whale. But Tat’s peculiar face is free of all worries; it’s an expression almost of rapture.And Murray reads aloud, in a voice that’s an echo of Alastair’s.“The Orcas come, the killing whalesburning through the seawith meteor tails of glowing green in a blackness without sun.And I see when it is over when the dying is nearly donewhen the blood as dark as winter chokes my baleen plates,That the darkness is my own.”
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