Perdita

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"Scharper shines in this surprising and engaging gothic novel... Impeccably researched and beautifully told this is a tale that will stay with readers long after the final page is turned."Publishers Weekly STARRED Review Marged Brice is 134 years old. Shed be ready to go if it werent for Perdita . . . The Georgian Bay lighthouses single eye keeps watch over storm and calm and Marged grew up in its shadow learning the language of the wind and the trees. Theres blustery beauty there where sea and sky incite each other to mischief or worse Garth Hellyer of the Longevity Project doesnt believe Marged was a girl coming of age in the 1890s but reading her diaries in the same wild and unpredictable location where she wrote them might be enough to cast doubt on his common sense. Everyone knows about death. Its life thats much more mysterious "Hilary Scharper deftly mines the beauty and wonder of both the human heart and nature in this haunting tale of enduring love."Cathy Marie Buchanan bestselling author of The Painted Girls