‘A pearl, a little book with a big impact.’ – AD MAGAZINE

‘Material enough for a dense novel that Deen instead turns into a crystal-clear novella, gorgeous for its language, with short sentences full of atmosphere and meaning.’ **** – DE STANDAARD

‘Deen gained fame as a radio producer and as the writer of the successful historical studies The Wadden Islands and Down Old Roads, which were praised for their captivating power, the ability to bring history to life. Here, too, he skilfully and poetically evokes a mysterious sailors’ world of lonely men in the mist.’ – TROUW TIJDSGEEST

‘In that way Mathis Deen depicts the Texel, today a museum piece, in better times – which immediately already sounds tragic as a story: in better times it stayed still. That decor, and the figures we can so image as the crew, have been immortalized in a fairly unforgettable way by Deen in The Lightship.’**** – NRC HANDELSBLAD

‘An exquisite novella.’ – DE VOLKSKRANT