As Liv gets more drawn into life on the island, she starts to wonder about the meaning behind the mural she’s been hired to paint. But the townspeople are clannish and superstitious, and the lighthouse itself once held a prison for women accused of witchcraft. Bringing her three daughters-15-year-old Sapphire, 9-year-old Luna and 7-year old Clover, she hopes the island will help ease the pain of losing their father. In 1998, single mother and artist Liv takes a commission to paint an old lighthouse on a remote Scottish island. Cooke (we reviewed her previous novel, The Nesting, here), The Lighthouse Witches, a desperate mother brings her daughters to a Scottish island that centuries ago burned witches. Since witches have been a staple of storytelling literally since Biblical times, the best stories build on that past while also offering something original and new. It’s also a time for witches and Halloween. Fall means changing leaves, the scent of a roaring fireplace, frost on the morning grass.
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