Lightbringer

Lightbringer is a modern fable about courage, sacrifice, and the redemptive power of love.***As Winstanley Jones is born his mother dies from the injuries of birth, and his father also passes on that same bitter night. He is sent to live with his grandparents but there is little love to go around. Despite his straitened emotional circumstances Winnie maintains his own ability to love, manifest in his simple kindness and generosity, and his extraordinary, outlandish bravery in the protection of other people.As a young man Winnie finds a particular focus for his love in a shy girl named Isabelle. She is already engaged but still Winnie writes sad sweet letters to her about the nature of love, things she badly needs to hear.Winnie's love for Isabelle eventually brings him into a terrible, deadly confrontation with an adversary who has hunted him for the whole of his life.***As a modern fable Lightbringer combines an explicit ethical framework with an unmistakable literary orientation, replete with religious and scriptural allusions. The book is an antidote to the modern misconception that love is essentially a feeling, that it is about getting rather than giving.Although it is not a children's book Lightbringer would be accessible for advanced readers from mid-teens upwards, with special resonance for young men moving into adulthood.