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Sixty Lights

By: Gail Jones

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Paperback | 5 May 2005 | Edition Number 1

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'Photography has without doubt made her a seer; she is a woman of the future, someone leaning into time, beyond others, precarious, unafraid to fall...'This is the story of Lucy Strange, a photographer, while the art is in its infancy, in the 1870s, who exists in an extraordinarily heightened state of seeing and imagining. Her tale is told in sixty illuminated parts - using candlelight, flames, lightning, gas-lamps, mirrors, magic lanterns and, most mysteriously, lit faces and bodies. In a contracted, almost modernist form, SIXTY LIGHTS tracks Lucy's life from her childhood in Australia, to her stormy adolescence in England and India and finally to her death in London at the age of twenty-three. It is a life abbreviated, but not a life diminished- she is a remarkable character, forthright, gifted, passionate and canny. SIXTY LIGHTS plays powerfully with Victorian tropes and texts - orphans, inheritances, Great Expectations - setting them against the technological revolution in seeing that is inspired by photography. Written with astute imagistic precision, the story is deeply layered, fluctuating between past, present and future. This is an impressive UK debut from a prize-winning Australian author.

Industry Reviews

'A very special novel indeed.' - Tom Boncza-Tomaszewski, Independent on Sunday

'Jones has a flair for luminous and accurate prose... A passionate book' - Guardian

'Gem-like, lyrical portrait of a girl growing-up' - Boyd Tonkin Independent

'Reads like a luminous album of photographs marked by an almost unbearable sadness.' - Weekend Australian

'An immensely well crafted novel.' - Sunday Independent

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