Swan Light

Having grown up in Cornwall, I love the sea, cliffs, and beaches. This book is set in my home country of Canada, along the rugged and atmospheric coast of Newfoundland.

The protagonist is an oceanographer and deep-sea diver; what a cool career! Like many who search for wrecks, she is obsessed with finding famous ones, and this leads her into the trajectory of unethical and equally obsessed treasure hunters.
I could not put down this imaginative book with its clever switching of timelines and complex layered plotting, its vivid and sensory details, cast of unusual characters (including the sea and… show more.

As a lover of lighthouses, I was immediately drawn to Swan Light’s book cover. But what hooked me was discovering it’s a tale told by two protagonists with two timelines—lighthouse keeper Silvestre Swan, as he tried to save Swan Light from the sea in 1913, and Mari Adams, the marine archeologist hired to dig for it in 2014.

Don’t plan on putting this down. It will consume you until you’ve finished it. Before reading it, I knew nothing about competitive shipwreck hunting or the Newfoundland coast. However, due to the amazing research in this debut novel, I’m now fascinated… show more.