The Last Lighthouse

About the Book: 

This work depicts the nine year quest of an American couple (an agricultural advisor and a writer/webmaster) living on a farm in Michigan, USA, to own and live in a remote Scottish lighthouse keepers home. In the form of e-mails, the book gives an intimate view of the gleefully-reported successes, and the less happily reported tragedies along the way, and describes the joys and difficulties of running and living in such a home in a remote, but beautiful, part of the Shetlands.

Reviews:

While Sharma’s tale of job burn-out may resonate with the worker in many of us, her solution – her escape – is far from common. DETROIT NEWS

They think Sharma’s crazy to live in a lighthouse… SUNDAY POST

Refreshingly free of the ‘Gee honey, it’s Bonnie Scartland’ tone that infests so many such books by excitable Americans, this is a readable and genuinely charming story of one couple’s dream come true... THE SCOTSMAN

…the steadfast chasing and deliriously happy realising of a  long-held dream. THE SHETLAND TIMES

....Scotland became a part of me,’ recalls the American writer, webmaster and ex-midwest farmer's wife, whose subsequent quest to buy a Scottish lighthouse – humorously recorded here – lasted eight years and wound up in Shetland. SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

About the Author:

SHARMA KRAUSKOPF is writer and speaker on ‘All Things Scottish’ and lighthouses. Her husband, Dean Krauskopf, is an agricultural advisor employed by Michigan State University and host of the popular Gardening Show broadcast on WJR radio in Detroit. A farm in Parma, Michigan is home most of the year but they spend what they call ‘special’ time each year at Eshaness Lighthouse in the Shetland Islands. For twenty years she was an administrator and consultant to social service programs serving the poor and/or disadvantaged. She is the editor, writer, and webmaster for Scottish Radiance a successful internet magazine with over 1.5 million visitors a month. Equally at home writing adult and children’s books, Sharma is also the author of a monthly column for the international magazine Lighthouse Digest magazine called ‘Light Reflections’.