![]() ![]() Lampie is a bit too good to be true, as the other characters themselves are melted by her good-heartedness, but somehow this failed to twang my insincerity strings, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. In the normal manner of middle grade books, Lampie finds the secreted boy in the tower, and teaches him to show himself in public. Lampie is consigned in the most abrupt fashion to a house on the hill where a monster is rumoured to live. The storm is also a symbol of the high emotions running inside the lighthouse, between the disabled keeper and his motherless daughter. Lampie has to get herself across the causeway and back, all to get a box of matches to light the lighthouse lamp in the coming storm. We are tossed and swirled and thoroughly drenched in the opening part of the book. ![]()
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