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Aplin, Jeanette, 1943 -

The lighthouse children's mother : an autobiography / Jeanette Aplin. - Auckland, N.Z. : Cape Catley, 2007. - 228 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Jeanette Aplin's The Lighthouse Children's Mother is the long-awaited sequel to her popular story of life on Stephens Island.



Here the author takes readers into a world now gone forever, the isolated life on a remote lighthouse this time in the far south, Dog Island in Foveaux Strait. Many things are much the same in families everywhere, but the extra challenges of lighthouse life will set parents thinking - how would we ourselves have coped?

Jeanette Aplin writes with charm and disarming honesty about island relationships, bringing her perceptive eye to what is truly different in her unusual circumstances .

ISBN: 9781877340093 9781877340093

Subjects--Personal Names:
Aplin, Jeanette, 1943 - --Family.--Family

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Lighthouse keepers' spouses--Stephens Island--New Zealand--Biography.
Lighthouse keepers--Family relationships.--Stephens Island--New Zealand
Lighthouses--New Zealand--Stephens Island

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Stephens Island (N.Z.)

Dewey Class. No.: 387.155092