The Woman at the Light

A Novel

By: Joanna Brady

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins

Publisher's summary

In the tradition of Leila Meacham and Dorothea Benton Frank comes a stunning debut novel about a well-born Southern woman who finds courage and strength to overcome tragedy with an unexpected new love.

One afternoon in 1839, Emily Lowry’s husband vanishes from Wreckers’ Cay, an isolated island off the coast of Key West where he tends the lighthouse. As days stretch into months, Emily has no choice but to take charge of Wreckers’ Cay and her husband’s duties tending the light to support her three children - and a fourth on the way. Unexpected help arrives when a runaway slave named Andrew washes up on their beach. At first, Emily is intensely wary of this strange, charming man, whose very presence there is highly illegal. But Andrew proves himself an enormous help and soon wins the hearts of the Lowry family. Far from the outside world and society’s rules, his place in Emily’s life, as steadfast now as the light, will forever change their futures. When Emily’s family is ripped apart once again, she faces untold hardships that test her love and determination and show how the passionate love of a defiant, determined woman can overcome any obstacle.

Joanna Brady’s novel was inspired by Key West’s colorful history and its female lighthouse keepers in the 19th century. She divides her time between Key West and a stone cottage in a medieval village in the southwest of France.

©2012 Joanna Brady Schmida (P)2012 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

“An enthralling tale of the days when wreckers ruled the seas and a beautiful woman was fair game.” (Mary Cross, author of Madonna, A Biography)

“In her richly nuanced novel, Brady has created a heroine readers are unlikely to ever forget.” (Michelle Moran, nationally best-selling author)

“Part history, part romance, told in clear prose, The Woman at the Light is compelling and rewarding.” (Daphne Kalotay, author of Russian Winter)

Good Listen

I enjoy this type of novel very much. The story line was very moving and touching for its time and the narrator did a wonderful job. I would listen to more of the author's novels and the narrator's also.

Interesting

Having been born in Miami Florida I was very interested in the key west outlook in 1800. Found so interested and different as it is a women struggling in a time you hear so little of.

the perseverance of this woman

this was a very gripping story and kept my attention throughout the whole book

Lust Offensive to Chastity

I had to turn it off ,I would classify it as a trucker novel."Harlequin Historical Novel"not Christian inspired.If it was it I would be a good novel.
it also is affront to me ,because the main character is a Roman Catholic ,.Lives quite opposite the teachings of sanctity of Matrimoby.What sort
of example is this mother setting for her children.