Pharos by Alice Thompson

Pharos by Alice Thompson

'How could someone without memory be real at all Without a memory what kind of a person was she She was living in a limbo land. She was like a ghost.' A young woman is washed up onto the shores of a remote lighthouse island. She does not know who she is or how she got there. She has no memory. The keeper of the lighthouse and his assistant take her in and feed and clothe her. In classic ghost-story manner, she is not all what she seems and neither is the calm and peaceful island.Set at the time when the slave trade was at its height in the 1860s, Pharos is a vivid, expressionistic ghost story, a wonderful and haunting tale.

'PHAROS will entertain and intrigue' SUNDAY HERALD

'Her writing is spare but elegant, the plot somewhat disturbing and it has a twist in the tale that subverts the reader's preconceptions.' IRELAND ON SUNDAY

'It is unlikely you'll put PHAROS down for the last time without being haunted into the wee small hours.' THE LADY

'Settle down to enjoy knolwdgeable, no-nonsense prose, unusual and original characters and settings, and a plot which is unpredictable, often shocking, but always true to itself.' INDEPENDENT

'An unsettling, intriguing tale.' HISTORICAL NOVELS REVIEW

'PHAROS rejects the classic ghost story for an impressively disorientating opening out of its generic rules.' TLS

Alice Thompson's first novel, Justine, was joint winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Her second, Pandora's Box, won a Scottish Arts Council Award. She lives in Edinburgh.

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ISBN 13	9781860499494
ISBN 10	186049949X
Title	Pharos
Author	Alice Thompson
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Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	2002-06-06
Number of pages	176
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