The lighthouse keeper's daughter / Hazel Gaynor.
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TextPublisher: Leicester [England] : Thorpe, Charnwood, 2019Edition: Large print editionDescription: 408 pages (large print) ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781444843156; 144484315XSubject(s): Darling, Grace, 1815-1842 -- Fiction | Lighthouses -- Fiction | Irish -- United States -- Fiction | Newport (R.I.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction | Northumberland (England) -- History -- 19th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Large type books. Summary: 1938: When nineteen-year-old Matilda Emmerson steps from the pier at Cobh onto the TSS CALIFORNIA headed across the Atlantic to New York, she faces an uncertain future. Sent away from Ireland in disgrace, she must stay with her reclusive relative, Harriet Flaherty, the lighthouse keeper in Newport, Rhode Island. Once there, Matilda discovers a discarded portrait that opens a window onto a secret that will change her life forever... 1838: When a terrible storm blows up off the Northumberland coast, Grace Darling, the lighthouse keeper's daughter, knows there is little chance of survival for the passengers on the ship battling the waves. But her actions set in motion an incredible feat of bravery that echoes down the century, and touches Matilda in ways she could never have imagined...
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1938: When nineteen-year-old Matilda Emmerson steps from the pier at Cobh onto the TSS CALIFORNIA headed across the Atlantic to New York, she faces an uncertain future. Sent away from Ireland in disgrace, she must stay with her reclusive relative, Harriet Flaherty, the lighthouse keeper in Newport, Rhode Island. Once there, Matilda discovers a discarded portrait that opens a window onto a secret that will change her life forever... 1838: When a terrible storm blows up off the Northumberland coast, Grace Darling, the lighthouse keeper's daughter, knows there is little chance of survival for the passengers on the ship battling the waves. But her actions set in motion an incredible feat of bravery that echoes down the century, and touches Matilda in ways she could never have imagined...
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