The Light Keeper - blog post from Cole Moreton

Find out more about Cole Moreton's upcoming book The Light Keeper and how to win a night's stay at the Belle Tout Lighthouse.


My first novel The Light Keeper is a story of love and hope, grief, faith and longing.

A young woman called Sarah stands on the brink, arms open wide as if to let the wind carry her away. She’s come to the cliffs to be alone, to face the truth about her life and to work out what to do, Her lover Jack is searching, desperate to find her before it is too late. But Sarah doesn’t want to be found. Not yet. Not by him. And someone else is seeking answers up here where the seabirds soar - a man known only as the Keeper, living in an old lighthouse right on the edge of a four-hundred-foot drop. He is all too aware that sometimes love takes you to the edge ...

The book comes out on August 15 but you can pre-order a copy here at a special discount or sign up to the mailing list and get the first three chapters to read immediately, for free.

Lighthouse stay insideNow the lovely people at the Belle Tout lighthouse are letting me give away a night's luxury bed and breakfast there for two people, again for free. It's a stunning location on top of a cliff in the beautiful landscape near Beachy Head in East Sussex, close to the Seven Sisters. You will never have stayed anywhere like it. And this is the setting for much of the book, so you will have a sense of being right inside the story.

I'll be reading from the book, telling the true tales behind it and singing some of the songs written to go with the book, in an exclusive event at lunchtime on Friday 13 September. This is in the Lantern Room of the lighthouse, with spectacular 360 degree views of the sea and the Downs. It's exclusively for members of the mailing list and there are only a dozen places available, so you have to sign up for a chance to win a pair. We'll choose them at random (by number rather than name) on publication day, and also select the person who will be offered the chance to stay with a plus one that same night, in a lovely room with a spectacular view.

So if you want the chance to come, put your name down here. You'll get those first three chapters immediately. And if you want to pre-order a copy (for four quid off) go here.



Thanks for reading, and hope to see you at the lighthouse.

Love and strength,
Cole


(This is a blog post that has previously been posted on https://colemoreton.com/latest/)

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