TY - BOOK AU - Aplin,Jeanette TI - The lighthouse children's mother: an autobiography SN - 9781877340093 U1 - 387.155092 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Auckland, N.Z. PB - Cape Catley KW - Aplin, Jeanette, KW - Lighthouse keepers' spouses KW - Stephens Island KW - New Zealand KW - Biography KW - Lighthouse keepers KW - Family relationships KW - Lighthouses KW - Stephens Island (N.Z.) N2 - 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 ER -