Author

Emma Stonex

Primary Agent

Madeleine Milburn

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International Rights

Valentina Paulmichl

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Hannah Ladds

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Biography

Emma Stonex grew up in Northamptonshire, about as far from the sea as it’s possible to be in the UK. Her love affair with lighthouses and the coast began with childhood holidays to Cornwall and the Isle of Wight, which remain among her favourite places to visit.

Before becoming a writer, Emma worked as an editor in publishing. Ahead of THE LAMPLIGHTERS, she wrote several books under pseudonyms, but saved her real name for the story that had always been in her heart: the real-life mystery of three lighthouse keepers who vanished from their rock light in 1900 and to this day have never been found.

She lives in Bristol with her husband and two young daughters.

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‘The week I shot a man clean through the head began like any other . . .’

In January 1989, Birdie wakes to the news she’s been waiting eighteen years to hear. Jimmy Maguire, the man who killed her sister, has been freed from jail.

Birdie leaves for London with a gun and a plan: to find him and make him pay. But this is a story with two sides. For Jimmy knew Birdie a long time ago, in a life she’d sooner forget. Theirs is a past of broken bonds and friendships burned, and a terrible secret kept hidden in the shadows. Did Jimmy kill Birdie’s sister, or is he the only one she can really trust?

From the grit and grime of city nicks to wild and windswept moors, from the haunting beauty of the Cornish coast to the golden hills of Devon, Birdie’s journey carries her back to the fields of her childhood, where, from out of the darkness, rises a startling, inescapable truth.

The Sunshine Man is a breath taking mystery about love and revenge, the many shades of justice and what it means to be free.

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The Lamplighters

Emma Stonex

Press and Reviews

“Superbly accomplished . . . The Lamplighters is a whodunnit, horror novel, ghost story and fantastically gripping psychological investigation rolled into one. It is also a…”

– Guardian

“Stonex’s story has the mesmerism of a churned winter sea.”

– Sunday Times

“A remarkable book, through every page, every character, the writing resonates with the dark, powerful presence of the sea.”

– Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path

“The novel I've enjoyed most this year.”

– Hilary Mantel, bestselling author of Wolf Hall

“I loved The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex – lighthouse keepers, ghosts, warring widows. It’s a wonderfully smart and atmospheric story.”

– Observer