Sixty Lights

Lucy Strange is an independent-minded girl of the Victorian age. She spends her early years in Australia, her teens in England and in Bombay, and her life leads her at last to London. All along she is spellbound by the play of light and by photography, still a recent invention, and she sees the world as a run of fixed images stored in her mind, through which she registers love, life and grief. The narrative slips between moments in time, and the things Lucy notices summon the past and foreshadow what is to come.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Historical, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Australia, United Kingdom, India, 19th century

First published

2004

Author's age

49 when first published

ISBN

9781843431954 (Harvill, United Kingdom)

9780099472032 (Vintage, United Kingdom)

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