Darkmans by Nicola Barker

Author:Nicola Barker [Barker, Nicola]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
ISBN: 9780007372768
Publisher: Harper Collins, Inc.
Published: 2011-10-27T06:00:00+00:00

There were two lighthouses – the old and the new. The old – no longer in use, painted black, open to the public – stood adjacent to the railway (with its Light Railway Cafe) and several hundred yards east of the nuclear power plant.

The new lighthouse – taller, leaner, smartly emblazoned with black and white stripes – stood further down the coast, like an upended hornet, its vicious sting supplanted by a powerful lamp, which blinked – calmly and benevolently – into the Straits of Dover.

Since the long, pebble-strewn spit on which they found themselves was so exceptionally flat and uncluttered (little more, in effect, than the brazenly exposed flesh of the immodest sea-bed) it was possible to see the two lighthouses from virtually every vantage point. With this in mind, Dory had concocted an entertaining plan to take a photograph of his son in which – by a quirk of perspective – he could make it appear as if the child were a tiny Goliath, supporting the new lighthouse in his outstretched hand.

But the boy wasn’t being cooperative.

‘Just hold up your arm and flatten out your palm…’ Dory explained (for what felt like the hundredth time), adjusting Fleet’s unwieldy limb to the perfect angle, ‘then stay still – very still – okay?’ He took several steps back. He lined up the shot. He was just taking the picture – his finger pressing down on the shutter – when Fleet –

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