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'... seventeen engaging chapters... ...Lane's original author entries, which transport the reader to tower-shaking storms at the Eddystone, and to hilarious episodes on various lights, including a side-splitting account of some creative electrical re-wiring... ...dryly witty and irreverent but he also writes with great sensitivity... His journals and remembrances of lightkeeping are at once comic and poignant, and he has captured the uniqueness of a service and way of life now gone forever'. The Northern Mariner 'A highly personal account of a keeper's life in the 1950s which no pharologist should neglect to read and absorb from cover to cover. This is what it was like'. Journal of the Association of Lighthouse Keepers 'A highly entertaining yarn... The author's sense of humour threads its way through the pages of the book, binding together many anecdotes of life as a keeper over seven years. ...you will just have to read the book!' Leading Lights 'Thanks for publishing It Was Fun While it Lasted. If he'd been a 27-year-old coke-head from Camden it would have made the Booker prize shortlist. This is the best book I have read in ages. Is A J Lane still alive? I can't find anything about him anywhere' - an 18 March 2007 e-mail to the publisher from Dave Connor, London

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