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Kids pick different slate of winning books

As any of the dozen publishers who knocked back Harry Potter would be painfully aware, kids rate books differently to grown-ups.

Fiction: The Lamplighters and three other titles

Fiction: The Lamplighters and three other titles We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Kerryn Goldsworthy Save Normal text size Credit: The year is 1992 and novelist Dan Sharp is attempting to solve a 20-year-old mystery in which three lighthouse-keepers disappeared from an offshore lighthouse tower beyond Land’s End in Cornwall. In his quest for information he approaches the three very different women that the men left behind, and we hear from all six characters in turn. With its double chronology and multiple points of view, this book could easily have become confused and confusing in the writing, but Emma Stonex has a strong grip on the structure of her atmospheric and evocative story, and that keeps the various slight hints of the supernatural from getting out of hand. There is, as it turns out, a rational explanation, but as with good crime fiction we are made to wait for it while all the secrets emerge and all