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Author | Peter Hill |
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Language | English |
Genre | Memoir |
Publisher | Canongate Books |
Publication date | 2003 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Book |
Pages | 275 (2003 edition) |
ISBN | 1841954993 |
Stargazing: Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper is a autobiographical book by Peter Hill published in 2003 by Canongate Books. [1] In January 2004, it was BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week read by David Tennant, [2] and received the Saltire Society's First Book of the Year Award in December that year. [3] [4]
The book is a memoir about Hill's time in the early 1970s as a young lighthouse keeper on the remote Scottish coast at the Pladda Lighthouse, Ailsa Craig Lighthouse, and the Hyskeir Lighthouse.