These Particular Waters

By Harwood-Jones

On a remote lighthouse station off the coast of British Columbia, Ewan Thompson has been raised to believe that some things cannot be automated: a keeper's judgment, a lifetime's knowledge of dangerous water, the quiet responsibility of standing watch.But in the 1980s, Ottawa has decided otherwise.Ewan grew up in the shadow of two things his family never named: a brother lost to the water, and the silence that settled over the island afterward like weather. His father tries to fight, and fails. Hugo Erola fills boxes with evidence that no one organizes into an argument. For decades, Ewan watches, logs, corrects the record, and says nothing in rooms where saying something might have mattered. He knows this about himself. Changing it will take him the better part of a lifetime.Evie Erola grew up on the same island and was sent away from it - for her own good, or so she was told. She survived what the mainland gave her, built a legal career from what the island made her, and brought both back to the fight when the fight finally found its room. She and Ewan arrive at the same place from different directions, which is how it has always been between them.These Particular Waters is a literary novel about faithfulness - to a dangerous coast, to the watch kept in the same hand across forty years, to the people the island makes and the people it takes. And about two people, raised on the same rock, who spend the better part of their lives learning what they owe each other - in the way keepers keep a light: without announcement, without ceasing, in all weathers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1997984156
• ISBN13: 9781997984153
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Troy Harwood-Jones
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.9" x 5.5"