The Lighthouse Keeper's Wife

· Bolinda · Narrated by Róisín Rankin
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Life is hard in Ireland in 1867. Eliza Carthy moves with her lighthouse-keeper husband James and sons Peter and Joseph to the remote island of Skellig Michael. Eliza is proud of her husband and his promotion to Principal Keeper and is eager to support him in his work and fulfil her duty as a good wife and mother. But life in this extreme location is challenging. The island is 54 acres of jagged rock, jutting out of the Atlantic, with no way of communicating from or leaving the island. The keepers must rely on a tender boat to deliver news, supplies and act as their conduit to life on the mainland. The island is exposed to extreme changes of weather and the landscape is fraught with danger. When assistant keeper Edmund and his wife Ruth arrive, Eliza hopes for respite. But her new neighbours are not what she'd expected. They blow hot and cold, seemingly wanting Eliza and family to leave Skellig Michael, making her question her sanity. Will Eliza be able to keep her family safe at the edge of the world? And can her marriage survive all that the island throws at them?

About the author

June O'Sullivan lives on an island in County Kerry. Her writing has appeared in the The Ogham Stone Journal, The York Literary Review, Seaside Gothic, The Storms Journal, The Waxed Lemon and Sonder. She is a graduate of the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. Her debut novel, The Lighthouse Keeper's Wife, was published in 2025. Her latest novel is The Sky Is Not Enough (2026).

Róisín Rankin is an Irish actor and voiceover artist from Dublin. After graduating from The Gaiety School of Acting, she made the move to London to further her training at The Met Film school. There, Róisín gained vocal representation and has been working in voice over ever since. She has narrated just under 40 audiobooks across a range of genres, including Catherine Walsh’s The Matchmaker and Erin Bowman’s The Girl and the Witch’s Garden. Most recently, she appeared on BBC4 in the six-part drama Clean Sweep.

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