We then fast forward to 2021 and get to meet a grown up Luna who is now pregnant with her first child. I have a real thing for books told across dual timelines – we are first introduced to these characters in 1998 when Liv Stay moves to the isle of Lon Haven with her three children Saffy, Luna and Clover after being commissioned to paint a mural. If you are looking for the most perfectly fitting Halloween read to take away with you for half term then look no further – if you were sourcing the essential ingredients for a chilling Spooktober read then remote island communities, centuries-old mysteries, a deserted lighthouse in a mysterious setting and otherworldly reports of things that go bump in the night certainly fit the bill and ensured that once I’d started, I was totally unable to put this stunning read down. īut what really happened at the lighthouse all those years ago?Ī gorgeously evocative and atmospheric mystery novel set in one of the most remote parts of Scotland, which allows you to travel back in time to the witch hunts that ravaged the country in the 17th century and the suffering and pain that so many real life women had to suffer during this troubled time As the last sister left, it’s up to her to find out the truth. Twenty years later, Luna is drawn back to the place her family vanished.

But within months, her daughter Luna will be the only one of them left.

She doesn’t believe in witches, or dark omens, or hauntings. Liv Stay flees to the island with her three daughters, in search of a home. Now, centuries later, islanders are vanishing without explanation. Mysterious and terrible events have happened on this island. Upon the cliffs of a remote Scottish island, Lòn Haven, stands a lighthouse.Ī lighthouse that has weathered more than storms.

The lighthouse witches book review