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stories from the five islands
Blair Penhaligon writes atmospheric coastal fiction shaped by islands, folklore, family silence and the things official records fail to hold.
A lighthouse. A lost sister. A seam in time.
An improbability of puffins.
The debut novel
An Improbability of Puffins
Ellie Pentreath has spent half her life avoiding the sea. Then the sea finds a new method.
Inheritance
Suspended after recording a voice no one else believed was there, Ellie returns to the Isles of Scilly expecting an inheritance she can refuse. Instead, a dead musician leaves her a lighthouse, with conditions, a legal deadline, and a light that appears to remember the women in her family.
The tower is not haunted.
It is remembering.
From the Isles
The Isles of Scilly are real ... the stories are fiction.
The novel draws on the salt, weather and isolation of Scilly: island boats, gig crews, flower farms, vanished birds, wrong lights, ferry crossings, local radio, bakery warmth and the thin line between public record and private grief.
The Light
A red-and-white tower on a headland. No cottage. No comfort. Only glass, weather and witness.
The Birds
Puffins first. Then goldfinches, robins and swallows: return, territory, charm and homecoming.
The Boats
Pilot gigs cutting through fog: six rowers, one coxswain, old routes under modern water.
The Record
Radio tape, room tone, council minutes, archives, and the question of who gets to decide what is true.
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