The Light Among Us

The Light Among Us (Paperback)

The Story of Elizabeth Carne, Cornwall · Historical Fiction

History remembered the men who ran the banks and read the rocks. It nearly lost the woman who did both.

In The Light Among Us, Jill George (with John Dirring) restores Elizabeth Carne of Cornwall to the page — scientist, banker, and force of nature. A geologist when women were not meant to be one and a banker when women were not meant to be that either, Carne moved through nineteenth-century Cornwall on her own terms, shaping her world while the record looked the other way. Set against the granite cliffs and turquoise coves of the Cornish coast, this is the vivid, deeply researched recovery of a remarkable life that truly needed to be told.

"A story which truly needed to be told. I could not put this excellent read down." — Tony Mansell, The Cornish Story