Florissant Presbyterian Church’s Book Club has set another virtual book club meeting on Feb. 23, 2022, at 10:30 a.m. to discuss “The Lamplighters” by Emma Stonex as this February’s book of the month.
Florissant Presbyterian Church’s Book Club
According to Florissant Presbyterian Church’s official Facebook page, the FPC book club is a group of people who have deep love and affection for books.
It is also mentioned on the same site that the members of the club meet once every month to discuss their book of the month and share their insights about the book with one another.
For this month of February, as per the same Facebook event, they will be discussing Emma Stonex’s The Lamplighters.
Those who are interested to join this event can inquire via direct message on their official Facebook page.
Emma Stonex’s The Lamplighters
Christobel Kent of The Guardian described The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex as a whodunnit, a horror tale, a ghost story, and a tremendously engrossing psychological examination all in one.
He also mentioned that the novel is also a piece of writing that is pitch-perfect. The novel juxtaposes the passionate and deadly lyricism of the lighthouse's heightened world with the prosaic, fretful language of life onshore, with dinners ruined and children screaming, as it weaves together the inner lives of the men and women and ultimately uncovers their private torments.
As stated in the same article, The descriptions of the Maiden's damp, saline, windowless interior, the shifting tides, suffocating fogs, and abrupt, odd sounds are just magnificent; and, like all the finest literary writing, they don't halt the narrative, but raise and accelerate it.
Referring to the same article, Kent mentioned that Stonex portrays rising insanity in a tight place with nuanced intellect, yet she never loses sight of the numbing grimness of the ordinary, and what it takes to stay going under terrible constraints.
Emma Stonex
In accordance with Penguin Random House’s official website, Emma Stonex is a novelist, and The Lamplighters is her first novel published under her real name; she had previously published numerous works under a pen name.
It is also mentioned on the same website that she was an editor at a big publishing business before becoming a writer.
On the official website of Amazon, it is stated that Emma Stonex was born in 1983 and grew up in Northamptonshire, which is about as far from the sea as people can go in the UK.
As per the same website, her fascination with lighthouses and the shore originated during childhood vacations to Cornwall and the Isle of Wight, which she now considers to be among her favorite locations to visit.
As reported by the same website, She authored numerous books under pen names but reserved her actual identity for the topic that had always been close to her heart: the true-life mystery of three lighthouse keepers who went missing from their rock light in 1900 and have never been discovered.
Stonex is now living in Bristol with her family– her husband and two young daughters, according to Amazon’s official website.
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