# The Lighted Rooms

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- Book: [The Lighted Rooms](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-mason/the-lighted-rooms) ([The Lighted Rooms.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-mason/the-lighted-rooms.md))
- Authors: [Richard Mason](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-mason)
- Publisher: W N
- ISBN: 978-07-5382-624-9
- Published: 2009-05-21
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A stunningly incisive and poignant novel about family, duty and the challenging world of the mind. Joan McAllistair is about to embark on the 'Trip of a Lifetime' with her daughter Eloise; a journey back to her childhood South Africa and the family homestead in the old Boer Republic of the Orange Free State. For Eloise, the trip is partly a gift, partly a means of assuaging her guilt at moving her mother into a care home. For Joan, the discovery of her grandmother's journal transports her to the troubled times of the Anglo-Boer war. Eloise, in the meantime, has gambled her business's entire fortune on a promise made by an old lover. As their stories unravel, Joan takes increasing refuge in the landscape of her mind - in journeys to her own past. She also finds an unexpected friend in a lonely teenager who shares her fascination with history.