NATASHA PULLEY
IT WAS ON BOXING DAY IN 1900 THAT THE lighthouse tender Hesperus reached Eilean Mòr in the Outer Hebrides, a remote island that should have been home to a trio of lighthouse men. Relief keeper Joseph Moore was put ashore. What he discovered has spooked people ever since. The island was deserted, and to this day it’s unclear what happened to the men.
Among those fascinated by the story is novelist Natasha Pulley. “What really caught my interest about it was not necessarily what happens from
