The Bodie Island Lighthouse is a real historic lighthouse, located at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It is still a working lighthouse, protecting ships from the Graveyard of the Atlantic, and is open to the public. The lighthouse setting and grounds are as wonderful as described. It is not, however, a library. Nor is it large enough to house a collection of books, offices, staff rooms, two staircases, and even an apartment.
But it is large enough to accommodate my imagination. And I hope the reader’s also.