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The Lantern of Quiet Hours
Mara Ellison
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The Lantern of Quiet Hours
by Mara Ellison
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A luminous novel about a lighthouse keeper who begins receiving letters from a stranger who claims to know how she dies. Tender, patient, and quietly devastating, it maps the small mercies that hold a life together.
2023 328 pages
introspectiveslow-burncoastalgriefhopefulcharacter-driven
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PSJul 13, 2026
Priya S.
The kind of quiet novel you press into a friend's hands.
DMJul 13, 2026
Devon M.
Gorgeous prose. A touch slow in the middle but the ending earns everything.
HLJul 13, 2026
Harriet L.
I read the last fifty pages in one held breath. A book that trusts its own silence.