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The Salt Clock
by Ines Harrowgate · 312 pages
A lighthouse keeper's widow starts timing the tide for the harbour office and finds a logbook in her husband's hand that doesn't match the printed tables. Quiet and exact, and more about who writes things down than about the sea.
Doors 19:00 · talk 19:30 to 21:00 Pellow & Daughters, back room
27 Vellum Row, Hartcombe QU3 9GJ · up two steps, past the poetry shelves Hosted by Maud Inglethorpe-Sale
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The logbook is written in a careful, neat hand. What does that neatness tell us about the keeper?
Why does the widow keep timing the tide after the harbour office has stopped asking her to?
Which of the two accounts of the storm would you believe, and why?
The novel ends on a page of tide times with nothing written beside them. What did you make of that?
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