In 1860 Lucy Strange and her brother Thomas are orphaned, and so begins Lucy's adolescent journey of discovery. It will take her away from her childhood home in Australia to London and Bombay and, finally, to her death, at the age of twenty-two. Lucy's is a life abbreviated, but not a life diminished. She is a remarkable character, forthright, gifted and canny. Sixty Lights is a powerful chronicle of a modern and independent young woman's life in the Victorian world. Objects evoke the past and hint at the future in a narrative that flows between pleats in time, through her observation of such objects Lucy's photographic vision is apparent. Her world is a series of still images which one day, printed on albumen paper, she will leave behind as affecting mementoes of her own extraordinary life.
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Lucy Strange and her brother Tom grow up in Melbourne, Australia in the mid 19th century, and are unfortunately orphaned, while just young children. Their uncle takes them to London where they live for a few years until Lucy is persuaded by her uncle, to travel to India to meet an old friend of his, with a view to possible marriage. During the long sea voyage, Lucy is willingly seduced by an older, married man and arrives to tell her prospective husband of her pregnancy. Despite an initial reserve between them, they soon become good, platonic friends, with him promising to support her and to return her to England when the baby is old enough to travel. While in India, Lucy meets one of the early photographers of the day and becomes his pupil, learning the then difficult processes of photography with its accompanying complicated chemical treatments. Upon her return to England, she furthers her studies of the art and discovers that she has contracted tuberculosis while abroad.
The author of this book writes beautiful, lyrical prose, both ethereal and haunting and full of the heroine's fantasy of light and shade, sometimes taking three pages to describe a single scene, while I just wanted to get on with the story. It's a dreamy, floaty kind of book and, if that's what you like, this is for you.
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