Sixty Lights

In 1860, when they are just eight and ten, Lucy Strange and her brother Thomas are orphaned. Left in the care of their uncle, the children begin slowly, frighteningly, to find their place in the difficult world. And so begins Lucy’s adolescent journey of discovery, one which will take her away from her childhood home in Australia, first to London, then to Bombay and, finally, to her death, at the age of twenty-three. It is a life abbreviated, but not a life diminished. Lucy is a remarkable character, forthright, gifted and exuberant; she touches the lives of all who know her. Written in confident, finely interwoven and intricate layers, Sixty Lights is the powerful chronicle of a modern and independent young woman’s life in the Victorian world.